Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gothic cathedral town of Malines, Belgium, Du Pont was preparing last week to build its first plant on the European Continent. Nearby, Procter & Gamble was operating a recently completed $2,000,000 plant. A few miles down the road, Union Carbide was moving into a polyethylene plant, and Ford and General Motors were operating assembly lines. In The Netherlands, B. F. Goodrich was constructing a synthetic-rubber factory at Arnhem, and Chrysler was rolling out Simcas from its recently acquired assembly line at Rotterdam. Like many other U.S. companies, they have found Belgium and The Netherlands the best places...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Barbara Bel Geddes, Don Murray and Jackie Cooper get a chance to work over The Hasty Heart, a familiar weeper about a tough Scot dying in a Burmese hospital during World...
Such group success is hardly coincidental. Miami believes in putting its football coaches to work in the classroom. The current head coach, John Pont (Miami '52), teaches 45 hours a year in football fundamentals. Every coach on the Miami staff takes a hand in formal instruction sessions. After they graduate, Miami alumni form a close-knit group, and they help one another along. Ewbank formerly served on Brown's staff. Parseghian got the job at Northwestern through Athletic Director Stu Holcomb, himself a former Miami coach (1942-43). Ditzel assisted Blaik at West Point, was hired by L.S.U...
...stockholders fared so well. Du Pont chopped its year-end payment from $2 to $1.50 per share. United Fruit, citing fruit damage from wind storms, cut its dividend from 75? to 50?. American Telephone & Telegraph declared the same $2.25 quarterly dividend it has paid for 37 years, despite a spate of rumors of a raise. But stockholders have fared well this year despite dividend cuts in hard-hit industries. The New York Stock Exchange reported that cash dividends on common stocks for the first three quarters set a record high of $6.4 billion, up $11.2 million from...
...Thomas F. Johns, is out showing the machine to U.S. industry. North American Aviation wants four of the machines; Hughes Aircraft is interested in using the machine on a 20-ft. lathe to drill and rout its Falcon missile. There may be other uses beyond machine tools; Du Pont is investigating to see if the controls can be used to run chemical-mixing processes...