Word: pont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ferdinand Lundberg, belligerent young author of America's 60 Families, and Vanguard Press, his publisher, were sued last week for $150,000 libel by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Reason for the suit was not that Author Lundberg placed the Du Ponts ninth among his 60 families, but that he gave the Du Pont Company as the correct answer to the question which appeared in the book's advertisements: "What industrial corporation engaged in war work was charged by the U. S. Government with billing it $75 for the burial of each of its employes...
...Since most economists have stoutly maintained ever since the present depression began that with a few exceptions 1937 inventories were low, it was striking that Messrs. Eccles, Knudsen and Wood were agreed that inventories had lately been at abnormal peaks. Other Senate Committee witnesses last week included Lammot du Pont and William Green and the latter also commented on high inventories...
...diplomatic. Avoiding the futile acrimony which characterized their meeting two years ago and the equally profitless sweetness which veiled their feelings last year, the delegates spoke their mind on the New Deal with dignity and restraint. In one of the most sense-making of the orations Lammot du Pont pointed out that for private industry to create jobs for 3,000,000 workers required investment of at least $25,000,000,000- money invested "a year, two years, perhaps even ten years in advance of any hope of return." And Business could probably raise the money if given "a reasonable...
...will represent the greatest aggregation of white-tied wealth and power ever assembled under one roof. Scheduled to decorate the head tables along with such non-capitalists as Eddie Rickenbacker, Bishop Manning, Bruce Barton and Sinclair Lewis, are such household industrial names as Owen D. Young, Lammot du Pont, Packer Gustavus F. Swift, Soapman S. Bayard Colgate, Oilman William Stamps Parish, Camelman S. Clay Williams, Steelman Eugene Grace. Copperman Louis Shattuck Gates and many and many another manager of major corporations. Even the rank & file clustered at the common tables will read like a Directory of Directors. And through...
Engaged. Elizabeth Murton du Pont. 20, daughter of Director Eugene E. du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., and cousin of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., to Walter Samuel Carpenter 3d. 22. son of du Font's vice president, Walter S. Carpenter Jr.; in Wilmington...