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Married. Ethel du Pont Roosevelt, 34, heiress to a Du Pont chemicals fortune, divorced wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.; and Benjamin S. Warren Jr., 38, Detroit lawyer; both for the second time; near Wilmington...
Vice into Virtue. Then, overnight, as in World War II, the "vice" of bigness became a sudden virtue. To build the hydrogen bomb plant, the Government called in Du Pont, one of antitrust's prime targets. After that, the Administration eased up on trustbusting all around...
...women's list: Mrs. Margaret Osborne du Pont, U.S. Women's Champion, for the third straight year...
...whose lives were deeply rooted in the region, including the entire towns of Ellenton (pop. 900), Dunbarton (pop. 250), Snelling (pop. 800), and Jackson (pop. 100) learned that they had to move from a 375-square-mile area in which the plant would be located. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. planned to have an 8,000-man construction crew in the area early next year; some families would have to move within 60 days, all had to be gone in 18 months...
...Pont de Nemours & Co., which netted $218.6 million compared to $135.9 million in the first nine months of 1949, declared a year-end dividend of $2.25, making a total of $5.35 per share in 1950, or $1.95 more than last year...