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Died. Harry Elmer Humphreys Jr., 66, president (1949-57) and chairman (1951-65) of Uniroyal Inc., formerly U.S. Rubber Co., third largest U.S. rubber producer, who rose from secretary of Christiana Securities, the Du Pont family holding company, to head the Du Pont-controlled rubber firm, where he overcame a late start in postwar expansion and more than doubled sales (to $1.2 billion) before retiring; of a heart ailment; in White Plains...
Small but magnum-loaded, the round is one of the most cantankerous in the history of American small-arms. Since 1964, when the Army was informed that Du Pont could not mass-produce the nitrocellulose-based powder within the specifications demanded by the M16, Olin Mathieson Company has supplied most ammunition for the rifle with a high-performance ball propellant of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine...
...fitting because the horse was Kelso, who retired last year with a record $1,977,896 in winnings. Since then, the 10-year-old thoroughbred has been training for a new career as a show horse and jumper at the Maryland estate of his owner, Mrs. Richard C. du Pont, 53. "I'm just as nervous as if he were in a race," she said. "As a matter of fact, he appears to me as if he wants...
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...York Stock Exchange. Its relatively restrained rise has mirrored investors' doubts about the profit prospects of some of the D.J. giants in currently or recently troubled fields: steel (U.S. and Bethlehem Steel), autos (General Motors and Chrysler), oils (Texaco, Standard of California and Jersey Standard), chemicals (Du Pont, Union Carbide and Allied Chemical) and, of course, A.T. & T., the world's largest corporation. Because all the Dow industrials have large numbers of shares outstanding, it takes substantial sums from investors to push their prices up more than a mite. Many Wall Street analysts thus took last week...