GRGR(12): plastics questions

[Jeremy Osner]

Hi all, hope I'm not jumping the gun on section 12 by asking a couple of
questions I find raised on page 250 (Penguin):

-- "Kraft, Standfestigkeit, Weise": was this an actual slogan of Du
Pont? or what is its origin?

-- aromatic heterocyclic polymers: I am assuming the process Pynchon
here describes Jamf inventing is an actual practice in the creation of
synthetic molecules; who really invented it?

-- Not that we haven't seen plenty of anachronisms already; but didn't
The Legendary Dr. Hoffman make his Important Discovery at Sandoz in the
early '50's, I thought? Whereas reading the first sentence of paragraph
2 on p. 250 one could get the idea that the made the discovery prior to
1939 -- or not...

--
We seek sex, and are left with two private bodies on a stained bed.
The larger erotic dream, the god, has eluded us. It is so whenever,
moving out of ourselves, we look for extensions of ourselves.

V. S. Naipaul
_The Mimic Men_