Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benson also thinks the Agriculture Department can help in developing new markets abroad, and by encouraging industrial research into new uses for farm products. Says he: "I'd like to see Du Pont, for example, go into corn research and do for corn and its potential byproducts what they have already done for coal...
Testifying at the Du Pont antitrust trial in Chicago last week, General Motors Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. explained why Charles F. Kettering, the company's famed research wizard, never made the top policy committee. Sloan said that in 1943 he had proposed that the committee admit "Boss Ket," who invented the self-starter and helped in the development of many another product (e.g., the high-compression motor, leaded gasoline). But when Du Pont Chairman Lammot du Pont objected, Sloan felt that his reasons were valid. "We agreed," said Sloan, "that if [Ket] came on the committee, he would...
...Commissioner of Public Roads: Francis V. (for Victor) du Pont, 58, financier, Republican National Committeeman. A member of the chemical clan (his father was T. Coleman du Pont), Du Pont served for 27 years (23 as chairman) in Delaware's State Highway Department, is given major credit for the state's A-1 road system...
...have changed to voluntary ones-and the results are confidential between doctor and patient. Today, of the 450 companies which the American Management Association considers to have good medical programs, only a few still require a report on each man to the company president. But companies like Ford, Du Pont, General Motors and Jones & Laughlin, all of which have voluntary programs, make it abundantly clear to executives that it is a good idea to be examined...
...most cases, Greenbrier's director, Dr. James P. Baker, has found that executives take treatment for ailments detected. Nine out of ten whose examinations show organic troubles undergo surgery or change their habits. Six out of ten patients found overweight start reducing. To help them, companies like Du Pont have developed special diets; Westinghouse's executive dining room features a 350-calorie "Waistliner" lunch each day and posts a calorie count after every item on its menu...