Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dealing Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.. who calls it ''a romantic nostalgia'' for the feudal class system. But as the presidential vote showed this month, conservatism is no longer a narrow economic viewpoint but a political philosophy with vast popular appeal. As Du Pont President Crawford H. Greenewalt pointed out, more segments of the population than ever participate in U.S. business, as employees, stockholders or owners, identifying themselves with the new capitalism in the process. Says he: ''Politically, we are becoming a nation of conservatives in the sense that more and more people have...
Businessmen who once decried Gov ernment meddling in the economy also recognize that most federal police powers, e.g., regulation of the stock market, benefit business as well as the consumer. Most businessmen today agree with Du Pont Chairman Walter S. Carpenter Jr. that the anti-trust laws, under which his com pany has been haled into court 22 times, "are fair and should be vigorously enforced." Though some businessmen still argue publicly that the Federal Government should stop regulating business, the majority agree privately that Government intervention is preferable to the economy of the jungle. Says Standard...
...thirdquarter earnings rose 24% over last year's to $10,751,819, and Atlas Powder went from $928,010 in '55 to $1,059,291 in J56's third quarter. But Union Carbide & Carbon fell to $32,148,446 (from $37,821,-591 last year); Du Pont dropped to $1.99 a share from $2.26 in last year's third quarter; Allied Chemical & Dye declined...
...bear market, and the economy is as sound as ever." To Paine, Webber's Luttrell Maclin. the "election of the Democrats would not be catastrophic, or even necessarily bearish." His explanation of the slide: "The market was just too high. General Motors and Du Pont, for instance, reached their high a year ago, and they've been going down ever since." Walston & Co.'s Research Director Edmund Tabell, a top chartist, added: "The market has lost upside momentum for 18 months. But this is not what I call a bear market. This is just a selective market...
...woman becomes a supervisor, we urge him to get into civic work. We believe it is part of good leadership to be a good citizen." Such giants as IBM, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, American Telephone & Telegraph, National Cash Register, all encourage employees to take on public tasks; at Du Pont so many executives are active that the company makes a point of cautioning them to "participate in, but not dominate" Delaware's civic projects...