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...have concentrated on achieving dominance in the fields it then occupied. But Du Pont has been chary of monopoly, for it knows that any monopoly gets fat and lazy, obsoletes itself in time. Thus Du Pont, though it is one of the biggest U.S. paintmakers, yields first place to Sherwin-Williams. Union Carbide outsells Du Pont in the field of plastics. American Viscose outsells it in rayon. Black gunpowder (once Du Pont's prime product) is now so obsolete that the company, which formerly operated 25 black gunpowder plants, has closed all but one. But in assets Du Pont...
...chiefly responsible for Glidden's expansion into non-paint fields is 50-year-old Dwight Joyce's father, Adrian D. Joyce, who at 78 is still active as chairman of the board. A successful businessman at 45, father Adrian quit his job as sales manager for the Sherwin-Williams [paint] Co. to form a syndicate to buy Cleveland's little Glidden Varnish Co. for $2,500,000. In three years, he picked up eleven more paint companies, strategically spotted through the nation...
SAMUEL S. SHERWIN...
...President of Wellesley; Ester Forbes, 1945 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History; Tilly Edinger, Research Paleontologist in the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology; Anne O'Hare McCormick, N.Y. Times Foreign Correspondent and 1938 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Journalism; Dorothy Fosdick, Member of the State Department's Policy Planning Committee; Belle Sherwin, a founder and first President of the League of Women Voters; Mabel Newcomer, Professor of Economics at Vassar and a former members of the UN Conference at Breton Woods; and Ruth Baker Pratt, first woman to represent New York State in Congress...
These critics, however, seem to have overlooked one powerful lever for change. The public might very well go for adult programs if they were advertised more cleverly and expensively. The continuing ability of the Five Foot Shelf and of Mr. Sherwin Cody's Better English Institute to buy full-page ads in the slick publications proves that there is a paying public interested in education and self-improvement. This fact will not forever be lost to advertisers. We have in recent times seen the decline of the supposedly eternal gag type of humor, and its slow replacement by the situation...