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...both sides with its bold and unexpected reaches, a four-man Supreme Court majority (Warren, Brennan, Black and Douglas)† overruled Judge LaBuy. Completely bypassing the Government's main charges-that Du Pont had violated the 1890 Sherman Act by fencing off the G.M. market from Du Font's competitors-the court based its decision on Section 7 of the 1914 Clayton Act, to which Government lawyers had devoted only six pages of their 100-page brief and only perfunctory oral argument. Section 7 bars a corporation from acquiring stock in another, "where the effect of such acquisition...
Richard flatly contradicted manufacturers' current claims of increasing gasoline economy, said that du Font's car fleet showed a "loss of fuel economy of over 10% in seven years." But for 1961 he predicted a turn to new, more economical fuel systems, e.g., dual four-barrel carburetors, aircraft-type pressure carburetors, fuel-injection systems...
...bottles to formaldehyde for undertakers. All this has paid the company well: between 1950 and 1955 sales soared 85% to $275,680,000; profits jumped 130% to $16.6 million, though 1955 earnings of 6% on sales were not as favorable as Allied Chemical's profit of 8%, Du Font's 22%. But Faina's goal is as American as apple pie, though it may seem as unlikely in cartel-minded, low-wage Italy as pie in the sky. Says President Faina: "I want every workingman to have 100 shares of Montecatini, a home...
...lures to catch the U.S. shopper's eye. The lures have to be strong; researchers at Du Pont calculate that a package in a supermarket has as little as 20 seconds to stop a passing customer. Among the stoppers: ¶Martinis and Manhattans sealed in packages of Du Font's transparent Mylar...
After listening to a recording which explains that the temple will not be used as a house of public worship but for ceremonies only, visitors see the baptismal font in the basement (stainless steel, supported, like the priests' washbasin in Solomon's Temple, by twelve brazen oxen). Then they visit the recorder's office, where