Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State of Delaware there are two clans which are really potent. They fight occasionally, but usually they divide the political machinery of the state between them with a casual gesture. One clan, of course, is the famed Du Pont family whose industries make everything from dynamite to dainty ladies' hand-mirrors. To the Senate they have sent T. Coleman du Pont, Republican. The other tribe bears the name of Bayard. Many centuries ago, its forefathers sprang from the loins of Chevalier de Bayard, that knight sans peur et sans reproche. In the U.S. the Bayards have been...
...Senator Bayard's wife is a daughter of the late Dr. Alexis I. du Pont and a cousin of Senator T. Coleman du Pont...
...with a mind capable of reaching the modern mind's highest development in four years, after which he would graduate into being an "Ancient," a Yogi-like creature with no low passions or appetites, not even the vulgar craving for sleep. To Irénée du Pont, vice chairman of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., 30,000 years seems a long time to wait for creative evolution to reach this point, and in the course of his remarks on the dyestuff industry he strayed into the future to propose that chemists could and should...
...Pont...
...week saw fit to make a 50% stock dividend. This reached almost 3,000,000 shares, makes the present capitalization about 9,000,000 (at current Stock Exchange prices, worth $1,800,000,000,* upon which 1¾% dividends will be paid beginning Sept. 11. The E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. and its stockholders will gain most. They hold somewhat more than 25% of General Motors stock...