Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pont created a stock market flurry by freeing itself of a possession that has proved a distinctly mixed blessing. Meeting in the company's 13-story, Victorian-style headquarters in Wilmington, the directors decided to distribute the final one-third of Du Pont's 63 million shares of General Motors stock among its own shareholders early next year. The directors thus complied with a 1957 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that held that Du Font's ownership of G.M. stock violated the anti-trust laws. Getting rid of the shares under a court order, Du Pont has already...
...prospect of pocketing another one-half G.M. share attracted so many buyers to Du Pont that the company's stock made one of its sharpest single-week gains in recent years before giving way to profit taking. The happy windfall for shareholders will deprive Du Pont of a rich lode of dividends that in the past has provided one-third of its earnings. For almost any other company, this loss of earning power would have been a severe blow. But Du Pont's profits from chemicals alone have been rising so rapidly that its profit margin is among...
...company's scientists win 600 to 700 patents a year and turn over all their patent rights to the company, as is standard practice throughout industry. But Du Pont encourages its scientists by letting them share in the profits of their inventiveness. Through a special bonus system, more generous than in most other companies, it yearly pays upwards of $50,000 each to several scientists, and over the years it has made millionaires of many of them...
Mass production began this month at a new plant in Old Hickory, Tenn., and Du Pont is also building a factory in Belgium to produce Corfam for the European market. Barbed-wire fences and 24-hour guards at Old Hickory testify to Du Pont's unwillingness to share its hard-won secrets with a dozen competitors that are trying to crack the synthetic-leather market. Not even the shoemakers have been allowed inside the production area, and a sign at Old Hickory announces: "Our competitor is a nice fellow-smart too-so let him figure...
...Angels into a one-woman show. Puffy, painted, clacking along on spike heels, bouncy blonde curls screaming Miami bleach, she seems to have been blackjacked by destiny in a thousand side-street hotels. If she loses her train fare, she sleeps at the depot. If someone offers to share his room with her, that's all right too. "I'm here with you," she shrugs. "I could be somewhere else-with my husband for instance. I hardly know him. So what's the difference?" Because Moreau lifts such roles to an eminence they ill deserve, European directors...