Word: duponts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lous M. Lyons, curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, has been named the nation's outstanding news commentator in 1963 by the Alfred I. DuPont Foundation. Mr. Lyons, who broadcasts nightly over WGBH, will receive a $1,000 grant...
General Motors reported the highest earnings-$1.6 billion-ever made by any corporation, regaining the crown briefly held by American Telephone & Telegraph. Standard of New Jersey became the world's first oil company ever to earn more than $1 billion in a single year. Giant IBM and DuPont both set new earnings records. Hardly any segment of the economy failed to gain. Most of the once ailing railroads made healthy profits, and the airlines, which only two years ago were in a financial tailspin, climbed to new heights of profit. TWA turned a $5,700,000 loss...
...Lammot duPont Copeland '28 has promised the University a total of $1.5 million for the study of world population problems. Copeland is president of E. I. duPont de Nemours...
Subhuman Treatment. Concierges have had a few defenders. Frédéric-Dupont, a former independent Deputy for Paris, argued so eloquently for a bill freeing concierges from the cordon that when he rose to speak other Deputies would shout the traditional cry: "Cordon, s'il vous plaít!" His bill was passed in 1957, and most doors are now opened by an electrical release in the tenant's own apartment...
...biggest of four concierge unions, says, "People do it just to get housing. It used to be a sort of profession. Now you have young couples who can't find an apartment, or elderly widows with no income and nowhere to go." Frédéric-Dupont claims that concierges are not so much surly as suffering, from loneliness, illness, malnutrition and exhaustion. He adds: "They are continually interrupted at whatever they're doing by people who burst into their loges without knocking, who are demanding and impolite and who sometimes treat them like subhumans. They...