Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drastic agrarian reform. They will keep the climate warm for U.S. investors, whose $800 million stake in Cuba includes huge plantations producing 40% of the sugar. In turn. Cuba will keep its big, guaranteed share of the U.S. sugar market. A dozen U.S. industries in Cuba, including Firestone, Du Pont, Reynolds, Phelps Dodge and Remington Rand, finished plants last year, and other big firms are going ahead with building plans...
...about 100 major Government and privately owned manufacturing and research organizations. They range from such small firms as Baird-Atomic, Inc. and Nuclear Science and Engineering, with only a few million dollars worth of business in supplying the major atomics firms, to such giants as Westinghouse and Du Pont, whose contracts run into hundreds of millions (see box). Several of them are ahead of G.E. in certain fields, but none have met the challenge of the atom on a broader front...
...Pont Company has granted $15,000 to the University as part of a $1.2 million program to promote basic scientific research, it was announced yesterday. The award is to be used for "explorations" in the field of chemistry...
This grant, given annually, is divided among professors and instructors in the Chemistry Department for use in individual research, a member of the Department explained. Unlike other stipends, the du Pont gift is given with no restrictions governing its use. Thus it fosters much work in chemistry that would not otherwise be possible, he added...
...total deposits, it has never lost the patrician air of leadership it gained virtually at its founding in 1862. It still does what the elder J. Pierpont Morgan called "only a first-class business and that in a first-class way," serving such blue-chip firms as Du Pont, General Motors, International Harvester, American Telephone & Telegraph and U.S. Steel, many of which it had a hand in building. The bank began by marketing U.S. railroad securities abroad, took the lead in consolidating and merging railroads toward the turn of the century. From 23 Wall Street the elder J. P. Morgan...