Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pont, gunpowder & chemical tycoon, who attended the convention as a director of Equitable Life Assurance Society, envisioned a great collateral use for these stupendous sums. Said he: let the insurance companies each year contribute one-eighth of one cent of every dollar of their assets to an organization for research in their favorite thing: the prolongation of life. "The funds would finance the greatest organization the world has ever applied to a specific problem," observed Mr. du Pont. The funds would be $20,000,000 yearly, the equivalent of a half-billion-dollar endowment...
Chemicals. Pierre S. du Pont, U. S.; M. Donat Agache, France...
Oberkoks. To E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. the Oberkoks Chemical Co. of Berlin last week agreed to give some stock and some cash. In return du Pont will give Oberkoks right to manufacture Duco products in its territory...
...Pont de Nemours & Co., with current construction work involving some $16,000,000, announced that an additional $9,000,000 will be spent...
...Scouts associated with an exhibition of antique furniture." The antiques - $2,000,000 worth of them including Gilbert Stuart paintings, Queen Anne chairs, a Chippendale clock, a Goddard block front desk - had been lent by people like Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mrs. Francis Patrick Garvan, Henry F. du Pont, Walter Jennings. Admissions were charged for the benefit of a $3,000,000 Girl Scout fund which is to be raised in the next five years. Mrs. Hoover brought news from Washington that the American Relief Administration was going to contribute $500,000. Corollary object of the drive: to increase...