Word: du
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Preakness last year, but broke down in the Belmont Stakes and now rated only 9-to-2 odds, dawdled twelve lengths behind the leaders through the backstretch, turned it on at the close to win by a gallant 2½ lengths. A well-beaten sixth: Mrs. Richard C. du Pont's five-year-old gelding Kelso, 1961's Horse of the Year and the 3-to-5 favorite at post time. Carry Back ran the mile in 1 min. 33 3/5 sec.-tying the track record. His $72,735 winner's purse boosted his life time earnings...
...wore on, selling panic buffeted the widely held blue chips: IBM fell 37½ to 361, Du Pont 12½ to 202½, A.T.&T. 11 to 100⅝. So irrepressible was Blue Monday's selling pressure that more than 4,000,000 shares changed hands in the final 30 minutes of trading, and the last transaction did not clear the ticker tape until 2½ hours after closing. In the second bleakest day in Wall Street's history, the Dow-Jones industrial index plunged 34.95 to 576.93-21% below its peak of last December...
...Theory (TIME, March 31, 1961), rushed out 4,500 telegrams urging purchases of such hard-hit issues as Polaroid, Xerox and American Machine & Foundry. On Wall Street, mighty Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith sent out a "Buy Flash"; so did Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, E. F. Hutton, Francis I. du Pont, and other influential brokerage houses. The long-distance wires hummed from Minneapolis, where the nation's biggest mutual fund group, Investors Diversified Services, was placing orders for $20 million worth of common stocks...
...Chicago federal court that ordered the Du Pont Co. to surrender control of its 63 million shares of General Motors stock (TIME, March 9) also suggested a way. Last week Du Pont President Crawford Greenewalt announced that the company would follow Judge Walter La Buy's proposal to distribute the G.M. shares among Du Pont stockholders. In July, Du Pont will distribute the first 23 million on the basis of half a G.M. share for each Du Pont share. There will be two or three more such distributions before the February 1965 deadline set by the judge. Each holder...
...Du Pont Show of the Week (NBC 10-11 p.m.). The D-day invasion of France is documented in film never seen in tne U.S. before and in interviews with people present at the landing...