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National Geographic : 1960 Jan
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H / Ice yachts spread fabric wings on Lake Hopatcong. Razor-edged runners allow them before his death he had extracted rubber from goldenrod. Chemical research meant Edison was abreast of a phenomenon of the 20th century: the in credible rise of the American chemicals indus try. Nowhere has that rise been more marked than in New Jersey, where chemicals manu facture has as many branches as an untrimmed crab-apple tree. Representing more than a billion dollars annually in the State's economy, the industry centers in Hudson. Essex, Union, and Middle sex Counties. Most noteworthy, however, is the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Chambers Works at Deepwater in semirural Salem County, near where the New Jersey Turnpike approaches the Delaware Memorial Bridge by the banks of the Delaware River. Du Pont began the Deepwater plant in 1917 and risked $43,000,000 in 10 years without a cent of profit. "Deepwater, for sure," grumbled stockholders. "There's no bottom to the need for money!" But today Deep water prospers as one of the largest chemical plants in the Western Hemisphere. Edison's work stimulated early electronics production in New Jersey, and World War II bounced it high. Electronics manufacturers 38 Water skier at Avalon frolics in a quiet back-yard inlet. For swimmers, the Atlantic's
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