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...Font's titanium-based paint, for exteriors. It "cleans" itself over the years by powdering off with the dirt...
Misery Has Company. Cordiner had plenty of company. Many another earnings report made no better reading than his own. Even the "growth" industries, such as chemicals, were taking a licking. Du Font's nine-month net after taxes fell 28% despite a 24% gain in sales; Dow Chemical's third-quarter net fell 25% despite a 33% sales gain. Smaller chemical companies managed to boost their nets...
...both Du Pont and I.C.I. abandoned most of the agreements which had caused the Justice Department to file suit. Du Pont, for example, opened foreign branches to compete in I.C.I.'s markets; for his part, 77-year-old Lord McGowan got I.C.I, into Du Font's U.S. market by buying a Rhode Island chemical company (TIME, March 13, 1950) before he retired. Nevertheless, the case went to trial...
...though many more wanted to come to church, its dilapidated state kept many away. In the winter the water froze in the font and the wine in the chalice. Parents would not let their children go to catechism class because of the cold and damp. Father Simon realized that he would have to build a small chapel that could be heated in winter and have the church restored for summer services. But where would the money come from...
...Christiana Securities Co., the Du Fonts' family holding company, which owns more than 27% of Du Font's common stock, paid a year-end dividend of $174.25, bringing the total for the year to $407.25 v. $258.60 in 1949. Price of Christiana stock: $5,400 a share...