
Companies That Built the World: Dupont - Episode 298
Unprofessional Engineering
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Dupont acquired a hundred and eight competitorsto kind of eliminate the competition. The federal government was like, so we have these anti trust laws for a reason. So here's a nice lawsuit under the sherman anti trust act. Five years later, dupont strikes a deal with the justice department and they spin off hercules and atlas powder companiesa ands up not being a big deal. And really, the reasons i'm calling these out is just a show, like how diverse they got. Remember, they started making gun owder on the river, and na makging movies and movie film soso. They did so much.
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