Word: durants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...auto industry stretched and soared, so did Hyatt. By 1916 Hyatt had a gross capacity of $10,000,000 worth of bearings a year. But A. P. Sloan was worried. His biggest customer was General Motors, which brilliant, mercurial William Crapo Durant had put together by merging a number of auto companies several years before. What if G.M. should decide to make its own bearings? So when Billy Durant offered to buy Hyatt, Sloan jumped at the chance, sold out to Billy Durant for $13,500,000. At 41, with $5,000,000 in his pocket, he might have retired...
...there just in time to cash in on the 1920 depression, which swept Durant out of the company, almost sank it. The Du Fonts saved it by buying Durant's stock, got bankers to guarantee the payment of the loans. When Pierre du Pont, after acting as president for two and a half years, stepped aside, Sloan slid into his chair. But the Du Fonts kept their stock, now hold 22.7%, virtually a controlling interest. In 1937, Sloan moved up to board chairman...
Also present will be Dean Buck, Dr. C. Sidney Burwell, Dean of the Medical School, William H. Claflin, Jr. '15, Treasurer of the University, Donald K, David, Dean of the Business School, Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager, Jerome D. Greene '96, former Secretary of the Corporation and Secretary of the Board of Overscors, David M. Little '18, Secretary to the University and Master of Adams House, and John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economic and Dean of the School of Public Administration...
...definite plans have yet been made for the occupation of McKinlock, declared Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager. When the ASTP closed here December 2, those members of the 66th Army Air Force Base Unit (Weather-Wings) quartered in McKinlock were transferred to Dunster House to enable the Army to turn the hall back to the College...
Whether civilians will be moved into McKinlock for the spring term depends entirely upon the size of civilian undergraduate enrollment, asserted Durant. At present, he said, it is impossible to make any definite statement concerning the immediate future use of the hall...