Word: ir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fishing industry ir New England has slumped so badly that boats are sailing south to try for shrimp. Nine boats have already left New Bedford, Mass, for the Gulf, and ten others are scheduled to leave soon. Fishermen say skidding prices, rising costs and Canadian competition are ruining their business...
...into $6,500,000. Just before Wilson testified, the court heard from Du Pont President Crawford Greenewalt, son-in-law of aged Irénée du Pont. He, too, had never heard the Du Fonts mention any Du Pont-G.M.-Rubber agreement, but he did add a footnote on his personal history. In 1926, on his marriage to Irénée's daughter Margaretta, Irénée had presented Greenewalt with 1,000 shares of stock in Christiana Securities Co., the holding company that controls Du Pont. The stock was then worth...
Twice Told Tale. The U.S. had promised that the case would be a "never-before-revealed biography of the Du Fonts." Actually, as told by Defendants Pierre and Irénée and Du Pont officials, it was pretty much a retelling of familiar history...
...Pierre and Alfred P. Sloan, Durant's former assistant, G.M. was put back on its feet, its assets boosted from $605 million to $1.8 billion. But Pierre had not been able to get the exclusive use of Du Font's revolutionary new auto paint, Duco, for G.M. Irénée, then president of Du Pont, insisted on selling it to all comers. At no time, then or since, have Du Pont sales to G.M. exceeded 4.1% of its total annual sales...
Lucky Coincidence. Equally sound business reasons, the defense insisted, prompted the Du Pont investment in U.S. Rubber. In 1927, the company was in bad shape (quipped Irénée: "Too many months of accounts receivable"), but Irénée believed that new management could put it in the black. It was a "coincidence," said he, that the syndicate that purchased U.S. Rubber stock in 1927 was made up of members of the Du Pont family. The reason was that Irénée's brother-in-law, W. W. Laird, was the Wilmington broker...