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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the winners of the third annual Horatio Alger Award, as outstanding symbols "of starting from scratch": television's Dr. Allen B. Du Mont and Used Car Magnate Earl W. ("Madman") Muntz...
Other Wimbledon winners in what turned out to be American week: Pancho Gonzales and Frank Parker, who won the men's doubles from Schroeder and Gard-nar Mulloy; and Louise Brough, who beat Margaret Osborne du Pont in the women's singles...
Like a nation preparing for war, the mighty Du Pont empire had been carefully preparing its defenses and enlisting allies for a momentous struggle to keep its empire intact. Only two weeks ago, it split its high-priced stock ($179), thus bringing its price down to $45 so that smaller investors could buy it, and, in effect, become Du Pont's allies. Last week, the expected assault began. Attorney General Tom Clark filed an antitrust suit in Chicago's Federal Court to break the $1,585,000,000 Du Pont holdings into at least four pieces...
...Squeaky Burwell, 37, decided to start an airline specializing in all-expense vacation tours. He raised more than $400,000-some of it from the Du Pont family-and, with eight surplus DC-4s and DC-3s, Resort Airlines, Inc. was under...
...industry-wide jitters stemmed from the fear that the public, expecting color TV in the near future, might stop buying black & white sets. According to Du-Mont's Dr. Allen B. DuMont, the present color converters are expensive, and so complicated that, if color telecasts began tomorrow, every set now in use would have to go to a factory for proper installation. All in all, the industry wished the subject had not come...