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...best year in the firm's history," agrees Managing Partner Charles Moran of the Manhattanbased brokerage house of Francis I. du Pont & Co., one of the four who have overcome the general passion for secrecy. Last year Du Pont's profits climbed 19½% to $4,340,152, while its revenues rose 12% to $70,637,738. That may sound like a bundle, but it actually amounted to a mere 6.1% profit ratio, well below the amount of revenue that most industrial companies keep after taxes. Still, it was a considerably better performance than that of the typical...
...satisfied with Bufete are its U.S. customers that they rely on the firm when considering further expansion in Mexico. Celanese Corp. of America has used Bufete for 26 jobs, Diamond Alkali for seven, Du Pont for 14, and General Motors for two. Among Bufete's present projects: a $20 million pulp and paper plant for Kimberly-Clark in Veracruz and a $30 million Kodak filmmaking plant at Guadalajara...
...been had by Sir Gerald Du Maurier...
Died. Harry Elmer Humphreys Jr., 66, president (1949-57) and chairman (1951-65) of Uniroyal Inc., formerly U.S. Rubber Co., third largest U.S. rubber producer, who rose from secretary of Christiana Securities, the Du Pont family holding company, to head the Du Pont-controlled rubber firm, where he overcame a late start in postwar expansion and more than doubled sales (to $1.2 billion) before retiring; of a heart ailment; in White Plains...
Mayor Teddy Kollek's municipal government has lifted the nightly curfew, and cool jazz echoes once more through cobbled alleyways from the Cave du Roi and Les Caves discotheques...