Word: co
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Exhorted by the U.S. Public Health Service to produce as fast as they could, the companies turned out more than 205 million doses of vac cine through 1957. sold 103.5 million doses to the Government for distribution to an eager public. Last week five of the companies -Eli Lilly & Co.. Allied Laboratories Inc.. American Home Products Corp.. Merck & Co.. Inc. and Parke. Davis & Co. -were indicted in a Trenton (N.J.) federal court on antitrust charges that they had criminally conspired to fix prices, submit uniform prices in sales to the Government...
Instead, the company offered to hand over all voting rights on Du Pont-held G.M. stock to its 185,000 stockholders on a pro rata basis. The family-controlled Christiana Securities Co. and Delaware Realty & Investment Co., which together own 29% of Du Pont, would do the same for their 4,000 stockholders. Du Pont would also promise not to buy any more G.M. shares, and would have no directors on G.M.'s board without specific court approval. "What would remain," said Du Pont, "would be an investment...
Died. James Drummond Dole, 80, Boston-born, Harvard-educated "Pineapple King," founder in 1901 of the Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd., which made big business of the islands' exportation of the fruit, now has annual sales of more than $80 million, leads the $117 million industry in Hawaii; of a heart attack; in Honolulu...
...Cinemale John Wayne, stars in The Young Land, produced by Patrick Ford, 37, sometime screenwriter and stuntman, son of Director John (Mister Roberts] Ford. ¶ Susan (The Diary of Anne Frank) Strasberg, 20, daughter of Actors' Studio Director Lee Strasberg, has bubbled quickly to the top, co-stars on film with Henry Fonda in Stage Struck, on Broadway with Helen Hayes in Time Remembered. ¶ James MacArthur, 20, son of Helen Hayes and the late Playwright-Journalist Charles (The Front Page) MacArthur, entered Hollywood as The Young Stranger, did so well that Walt Disney signed him for The Light...
...lose," spieled a full-page ad by Doubleday & Co. in the New York Times Book Review. "We are so convinced of the appeal these important books will have for you that we are willing to bet that five of them will be best sellers by the first week in May." The terms: if more than one of the six failed to make the Times bestseller list by then, Doubleday promised to send a copy of any one of them "absolutely free" to anybody asking...