Word: lammot
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...dinner, which was the second biggest dinner* the Waldorf had ever served. Present were enough tycoons to float a national economy. Men like General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan, U. S. Steel's Irving Olds and Ben Fairless, Standard Oil's William Farish, Du Font's Lammot du Pont, Swift's John Holmes, Bethlehem's Eugene Grace, General Electric's Philip Reed, Goodyear's Paul Litchfield were just white ties in a white-tied sea. It was probably the greatest galaxy of industrial power and talent ever gathered in one room...
...outgoing Du Fonts were not enough, the secretary gave the astonished directors another: slim, knife-faced President Lammot, 59, had "reached an age where retirement is . . . incidental to desire for relief from responsibilities. . . ." But Lammot did not leave the company. He was quietly elected chairman of the board. Then the directors turned to a slender, broad-domed, greying man beside him: Walter Samuel Carpenter Jr., 52, long known as the Du Pont crown prince. He was elected president-the first non-Du Pont to head the company in nearly a century. Unlike his elder brother,* Walter Carpenter is not even...
...Breezy Robert Ruliph Morgan ("Rulie") Carpenter, mountain climber and beast-shooter, married a sister of Pierre, Irénée & Lammot. Wilmington calls them "the lively Carpenters" to distinguish them from "the quiet [Walter] Carpenters." Says Rulie: "Walter always went in for heavier reading than...
There he weekended last week, driving up from Philadelphia through Valley Forge Park. There he looked over his stable of superb working Percherons (sired by mighty Fallowfield Buck, a pedigreed stallion bought from his friend Lammot du Pont) ; Brandy, his big Virginia hunter, favorite of his stables; dozens of new calves; his herd's milking records. He lunched with kindly, pretty Mrs. Pew in the mansion-house-a broad, yellowstone Pennsylvania farmhouse with a vast fireplace, beamed ceilings, wide-board floors. Over the rolling, spring-green hills he looked and said, with his quick, humorless smile: "I get about...
...other men and things: 386,000 stockholders, who drew $159,497,902 in 1939 dividends (from $1,376,828,337 in net sales); lively, wiry Board Chairman Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., whose 750,000 shares paid him $2,875,000 (in 1937); four Du Ponts-Henry B., Henry F., Lammot, Pierre-who dominate the board; 220,434 workers in no plants, 14 States (Michigan, California, Massachusetts, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Indiana, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, New York, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Washington), who earned $386,292,203 last year; grey-red, hulky President Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, who has earned...