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Among supporters of A.A.: General Robert E. Wood, chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Co., once earnest chairman of America First; Lammot du Pont, chairman of the board of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., arch Republican, anti-New Dealer and Liberty Leaguer...
...toll was terrific. The volume of sales was 2,900,000 shares, the highest since last January. Only 32 issues had advanced, while 548 had reached new lows for the year. Down went General Motors, U.S. Steel, Montgomery Ward and Union Pacific, along with the cats & dogs. Du Pont, bluest of blue chips, suffered the worst loss of all-17 points...
...chooses what tournaments she will play, demands and gets top expense money. Since the rest of the girls have little choice but to tag along, women's tennis today is known as the Betz Club. Its eastern home is with Delaware's wealthy tennis fan William du Pont, who subsidizes Ozzie, Bruffie and a dozen or so lesser lady tennists as much as the watchdog of amateur tennis, the U.S.L.T.A., allows. Betz owns to having been helped financially at one time (it is permissible to accept "gifts"), but now she gets along on her own and the legitimate...
...Pont's net sales were down from $338,889,874 in 1945's first half to $315,324,279 this year. But earnings jumped to a peacetime high...
Beer & Blue Laws. On May 29, when it looked as if the club would set a new record for games lost, youthful Owner Bob Carpenter Jr. (whose father, a Du Pont vice president, had bought him the club) made a crucial decision. The usual fire-the-manager cries were being heard and doing team morale no good. Carpenter suddenly announced that he was not only keeping Ben Chapman but had signed him for 1947 too. From then on, Chapman was able to get what he needed from his boys. Ex-Cincinnati slugger Frank McCormick (who cost $40,000) began knocking...