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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Wimbledon winners in what turned out to be American week: Pancho Gonzales and Frank Parker, who won the men's doubles from Schroeder and Gard-nar Mulloy; and Louise Brough, who beat Margaret Osborne du Pont in the women's singles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winners at Wimbledon | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Like a nation preparing for war, the mighty Du Pont empire had been carefully preparing its defenses and enlisting allies for a momentous struggle to keep its empire intact. Only two weeks ago, it split its high-priced stock ($179), thus bringing its price down to $45 so that smaller investors could buy it, and, in effect, become Du Pont's allies. Last week, the expected assault began. Attorney General Tom Clark filed an antitrust suit in Chicago's Federal Court to break the $1,585,000,000 Du Pont holdings into at least four pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Knife | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...suit was also one of the most sweeping ever filed by the Antitrust Division. It named as defendants the three famed Du Pont brothers, Pierre, Lammot and Irénée, and more than 100 others who were related to them "by blood or marriage" (which might include the children of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and his exwife, Ethel du Pont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Knife | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...Squeaky Burwell, 37, decided to start an airline specializing in all-expense vacation tours. He raised more than $400,000-some of it from the Du Pont family-and, with eight surplus DC-4s and DC-3s, Resort Airlines, Inc. was under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Flying Tours | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...there seemed to be a considerable difference between Herberger's chain of seven small-town stores and Butler Bros., largest U.S. wholesaler of general merchandise and also operator of 170 retail stores. Neither the Herberger hustle nor the magic of the Du Pont name could get the oldtime profits out of the 62-year-old company. Instead, Butler Bros, lost $4.3 million before tax carrybacks in 1947, squeezed out a small profit last year, but dropped $287,632 in 1949's first quarter. Its stock fell fcom 15 to 7 in two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: A New Room Upstairs | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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