Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They said he was ready for the pastures. But Owner Allaire du Pont was not listening-not when they were talking about Kelso, her four-time Horse of the Year, winner of 33 races and $1,641,127. He was seven years old now, had won only two cheap allowance races all year, had finished fifth, 14 lengths behind that new champion Gun Bow the last time he ran in a stake. Mrs. du Pont simply ignored it all and sent her "Kelly" out to run again...
...including Jockey Milo Valenzuela) on his back, Kelso lined up with Gun Bow and three other rivals for the 1⅛-mile Aqueduct Stakes, first of New York's late-season weight-for-age races. "He'll beat Gun Bow, you wait and see," insisted Mrs. du Pont. Few in the Labor Day crowd of 65,066 agreed with her. They sent Kelso off at 2-1, his longest odds in 19 months. The odds...
...machine that averages $3,000,000 in price, is designed for data processing as well as for scientific problems. The 3600 will be used, for example, by West Germany to forecast weather, by Sears Roebuck to coordinate orders from 1,400 offices, and by Francis I. du Pont & Co. to receive and channel stock orders to specialists...
...grindstone. The first two weeks of the current session, which began on July 12, dealt with "Internal Administration of a Business Enterprise." Says Professor of Management Dr. Charles E. Summer Jr.: "We hit them with everything from a series of talks by executives from Westinghouse, IBM and Du Pont to the administrative problems of a mythical outfit called the Wiz-Away Skate Company. You might say that Wiz-Away was on thin ice, management-wise...
...profit highs were also reached by such varied companies as Du Pont, Motorola, Texaco, Sun Oil, Minnesota Mining, United Air Lines-and those that did not set new marks contented themselves with hefty hikes. B. F. Goodrich raised profits 15.5%, and Reynolds Metals 25%. The nation's second largest railroad, the Pennsylvania, was up more than 500% in the first half, and the third biggest road, the New York Central, turned a $4,400,000 loss into a $10.7 million profit. If the second half continues at the first-half pace-which ran ahead of all estimates...