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Thirty years have passed since chemists at E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. revolutionized the textile industry by introducing a man-made fiber named nylon. Since then, Du Pont has continued to mount an impressive list of synthetic firsts in textile fibers, including Orlon, Dacron and Teflon. Last week at a press preview in Manhattan's First National City Bank Building, the chemical Goliath unveiled its latest unnatural discovery: Qiana. (Pronounced...
...Pont de Nemours...
Corporate profits for the first three months of the year fattened significantly, especially compared with the mini-recession first quarter of 1967. Net earnings were up 7% for General Electric, 10% for Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical, 20% for Du Pont. The increases were big enough to set first-quarter profit records at RCA (up 5%), Bank of America (up 12.8%), Westinghouse Electric (up 26%), Weyerhaeuser (up 30%), IBM (up 36%) and Magnavox...
Under the chairmanship of Lammot du Pont Copeland '27, the committee will solicit the necessary funds from a select group of wealthy benefactors, Merle Fainsod, Director of the University Library, said yesterday...
...King's Mistress. Corporations, insists Jay, are today's equivalent of pre-19th century states even down to geographic control of territories (Du Pont over Wilmington and Boeing over Seattle, for instance) and their near-absolute grip on the careers and movements of their subjects (employees). Thus today's corporate rulers should learn from their princely predecessors They should depend less on staff men (courtiers) and more on regional managers (barons), but at the same time not let the company become so decentralized that the barons will battle one another for the power that rightfully belongs...