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DuPont

Shown at the company’s headquarters. It was mentioned on the show, but not as a specific place, so the pin marks its home base.

DuPont Building
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About DuPont

The DuPont Building, occupying the entire block bound by 10th, 11th, Orange, and Market streets, was one of the first high-rises in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. It looks out over Rodney Square. The building was built in phases, with the original building constructed in 1908 fronting Rodney Square. At the time, the building housed the offices of DuPont. In 1913, the building was expanded into a "U" by adding wings along 10th and 11th streets, the DuPont Playhouse was added, and a portion of the original 1908 section was converted into the Hotel du Pont. The final addition to the building occurred in 1923 when the Orange Street addition was added along with an additional two floors, bringing the floor count to 13 and the height to 124 feet (38 m).

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On the show · 4 mentions total

DuPont, the main company that made the tights or the stockings, they said they would make 360 million pairs as soon as the war ended within a year, and they could not live up to that at all.

from 294: No Such Thing As A 15-Hour Working Week, 2019-11-08 at 00:20:44 · read transcript

Other times DuPont came up

  1. Duperu. Yeah. Sorry. pronoun. Sorry, pronoun. Super Duperu. Okay. That was an acronym. It stood for DuPont pulls a rabbit out of a hat. Yes. DuPont was the manufacturer. Yeah. Yeah. We should say why they banned it? Because the reason it was so amazing was that it was another material which replaced silk, basically. Before the war, America imported, I think it was 80% of all the silk made in the world was imported.

    No Such Thing As A 15-Hour Working Week, 2019-11-08 · listen

  2. Cool. Yeah. Sorry for announcing that round. Super Dupero. Super Dupero. Okay. That was an acronym. It stood for Dupont pulls a rabbit out of a hat. Yes. Dupont was the manufacturer. Yeah. Yeah. We should say why they banned it. Because the reason it was so amazing was that it was another material which replaced silk, basically. When the war, America imported, I think it was 80% of all the silk made in the world was imported.

    294: No Such Thing As A 15-Hour Working Week, 2019-11-08 · listen

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