SMOKELESS POWDER
AMERICAN CONTRACT
(Received July 18, 1 p.m.)
WASHINGTON, July 17
The War Department has made a contract with Du Ponts to construct and operate 25,000,000 dollars' worth of plant to produce 200,000 pounds of smokeless powder daily, thus tripling the present national production. Three other similar contracts are planned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 16, 18 July 1940, Page 12
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51SMOKELESS POWDER Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 16, 18 July 1940, Page 12
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