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...dead are: Capt. Osceola A. Browning, Corporal Henry Williams and Privates Anderson, Durant, Campbell, Wright and Barnes...
...skyscraper had no sooner become a symbol for business progress and growth, than the Middle West entered the competition. W. C. Durant, then heading General Motors, decided to acquire the championship in office buildings for Detroit, and succeeded in doing , so with the enormous General Motors Building?at present the world's largest. Cleveland also entered the competition with its mammoth Union Trust building. Chicago began planning new office structures of huge size. Thus, while Manhattan remained unique in the number of its skyscrapers, its largest building was outranked by construction in the Middle West...
...Pont holdings in General Motors developed from an interest in the company shown as early as 1915 by J. J. Reskob, Du Pont Vice President. When after the Armistice W. C. Durant, General Motors head, found himself unable to continue in control of the company, the Du Pont concern, under persuasion of Mr. Raskob, raised $50,000,000 on its own credit to take up Durant's stock in the concern. Since that time the value of the stock has more than doubled, and now the Du Pont stockholders are receiving very substantial dividends from Mr. Raskob...
...honorary degrees, a semicentennial address by Dr. Angell of Yale on the increased obligation of U. S. educators to rear men and women for "social progress." In Memorial Chapel, a tinted window was dedicated to "The Founders" and "their beloved son," for the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fowle Durant of Boston once specified that their names must not appear on any memorials to them that Wellesley might see fit to erect...
...stockmarket, one of the leading sensations was provided by the astonishing rise in price of U. S. Cast Iron Pipe. At the time, talk of a corner by W. C. Durant abounded. Yet the annual 1924 report of the Company now shows that other than manipulative causes were responsible for the long advance of "Pipe Common." Net profit last year amounted to $6,587,188, compared with $4,062,699 in 1923, $1,583,058 in 1922 and only $629,429 in 1921. Net for 1924 amounted, after 7% preferred dividends, to $43.17 a share on the 120,000 shares...