Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total in Government bonds, buy G.M. stock with the remaining $2. Participants may contribute up to 10% of earnings, will get a guarantee that, if the stock goes down, they will still get back their contributions plus interest. In the three months since E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. launched a similar thrift plan, 73% of its eligible employees signed...
...peace. Burlington has also joined up with a domestic competitor, Chadbourn Hosiery Mills, Inc., and organized Patentex, Inc., to handle licensing. By last week, Patentex had taken over 51 domestic and 47 foreign licenses. The industry was ready to produce-and to promote. Led by Nylon Manufacturer du Pont, more than a million dollars worth of advertising has been scheduled for the fall to create a bigger demand for stretch yarn and its many new products...
Records were also made in the chemical industry. Du Pont announced that for the first half of 1955 it earned $3.98 a share, a new six-month record topping the old high for the period of $3.22 a share, set just a year ago. Union Carbide earned $35,217,819 during the second quarter, almost 75% more than it made in the same three months a year...
...individual investors. They are less interested in dividends than in growth stocks and in profits from lower-taxed capital gains. To most investors the bigger companies appear best able to move ahead with the fast-growing U.S. economy. Thus, they have been concentrating on such giants as Du Pont, selling at about 30 times its earnings (normally, security analysts think a stock is doing well if it sells at ten times its earnings), and I.B.M., a leader in automation, which is selling at almost 40 times earnings. In three months buying for growth has boosted the stocks of chemical companies...
Specially trained men are waiting with special spray equipment to give your car this unique easy-to-clean beauty process. Drive in wherever you see the Du Pont Spray Glaze sign...