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...pure bred Holsteins over a quarter century ago, and has paid as high as $106,000 for a bull. Other leaders of the industry who get pleasure and relaxation as well as a sense of service to agriculture through their Hoistem breeding efforts are Colonel H. F du Pont of Delaware; Colonel Fred Pabst of Milwaukee-George Rasmussen of National Tea: E. H. Maytag of washing-machine fame: F. E. Murphy of the Minneapolis Tribune; Governor Lowden of Illinois; T.B. Macaulay of the Sun Life in Canada; Ogden Mills, Owen D. Young, Daniel Willard. . . . M. S. PRESCOTT...
...third son presently calmed down, posed, remarked: "It's not you I try to dodge- it's the columnists I don't like!"* Then, angrily denying their engagement, he finally reached the girl he had been so frantic to see again - blonde Ethel du Pont, niece of President Roosevelt's bitter antagonist, Liberty Leaguer Irénée du Pont...
...chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., which is about as much and about as little a munitions firm as E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.. closed the week by asserting: "We should not be regarded as a munitions firm at all! Our sales of military products during the past five years amounted to only 1.8% of the total business of Imperial Chemicals...
...Pont de Nemours 8 Co. made $62,085,000 in 1935 as against $46,701,000 in 1934. About one-third of the Du Pont net was supplied by $22,497,000 in dividends from General Motors. Yet the chemical portion of the Du Pont business showed the greatest profits in the company's history...
...largest flat glassmaker. Pittsburgh Plate also expanded into the paint business and now ranks second to Sherwin-Williams as a U. S. paintmaker. But glass has a better profit margin, and Pittsburgh has by no means lost interest in glass. It got into safety glass through E. I. du Pont de Nemours, which made the binder, and for a while went 50-50 with the du Fonts in safety glass manufacture. In 1930 Pittsburgh bought out the du Pont interest. So, like Libbey-Owens-Ford, Pittsburgh rode along with the motor boom and its 1935 earnings are estimated at about...