Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pont de Nemours & Co. consolidates the Du Pont family investments in industrial enterprises, including a one-fourth interest in General Motors. Their half year net earnings were...
...story, $40,000,000 Equitable Building in Manhattan appealed to the du Pont interests at its construction in 1915. Last year the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers bought control. This they sold last week to William H. Vanderbilt, Harry C. Gushing III and President Leroy W. Baldwin of the Empire (labor interests) Trust...
Engineer Howard R. Armstrong is a man of vision, but hardly a visionary. He has flown in airplanes for over 20 years. He has ascended professionally to the head of the mechanical experimental division of the vast E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. of Wilmington Del. When he talked last week of a plan that has been in his head for 20 years, he got a respectful hearing from Army and Navy officials, the press and his fellow scientists...
Boca Raton. Thomas Coleman du Pont, Jesse Livermore and a few others equally as prominent recently resigned from the directorate of Architect Addison Mizner's 16,000-acre, $40,000,000 project here. Lot buyers owed $21,000,000. Creditors have sought to force a receivership...
...everyone knows, numerous members of the rapidly prolific and fabulously wealthy du Pont clan dwell together in a residential park near Wilmington, Del. They are distinguished as a family by a lack of ostentation, a generous solicitude for their retainers' welfare, and an astute dominance in national business (for example, General Motors) and Delaware politics...