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Early Years. Born June 6, 1901 in Surabaya, East Java, to a Balinese mother, Javanese father, who taught school for a living. Although few natives learned to read under the Dutch, received a rare civil engineer degree at Bandung Technical Institute, entitling him to precede his name by Ir. (Dutch contraction for engineer). But Ir. Sukarno built little, instead bent himself to destroying Dutch rule. The Dutch jailed him in 1929 and kept him jailed or exiled for twelve of the next 13 years. In 1942 the Japanese army smashed over 300 years of Dutch rule in eight days, freeing...
...Crimson lineup: ol, Godfrey Trustlow. il, Hank Holmes; cf, Mauricio Toro; ir, Dave Weiss or Bill Cowperthwaite; lhb, Carey McIntosh (C.); chb, Stacey Homes; rhb, Denny Little; fb, Hugh Sargent and Chuck Haddik; goal, Lindsay Fischer...
...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...
...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...