Word: wilmington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...horsy Investment Banker Ogden Phipps, will entertain 1,000 guests with Lester Lanin's music on Long Island Sept. 9; and two days before that, Mr. and Mrs. Irénée Du Pont Jr. will throw one of the season's biggest balls at their Wilmington, Del., estate for their debutante daughter Irene...
...acquire Chicago's A. C. Allyn & Co. (24 branches). The du Pont firm was set up in 1931 by Francis du Pont, a great-grandson of Eleuthère Iréneé du Pont, founder of the Du Pont chemical empire, and grew big by catering to Wilmington's richest carriage trade. Now headed by Francis' son, Edmond du Pont, 57, the firm long ago broadened its sights beyond Wilmington, can use Allyn's brokerage network to expand even further its fast growing business. The move will strengthen du Font's position...
Welcome for Wives. Last week circuit-riding Berlitz instructors were teaching Japanese in Chicago to employees of Caterpillar Tractor, Spanish and German in Moline to officials of John Deere, and French in Wilmington to executives of Du Pont. U.S. Steel sends large groups of executives to Berlitz to determine which ones can learn Spanish fastest, later selects some of them for assignment to Venezuela. Corporation wives are almost always included in the various courses; companies have found that wives who are left speechless abroad soon start clamoring for a costly transfer back home...
...cent of the colored people here work in one of the two plants. Just now there is a strong movement to unionize the Campbell's plant, which offers, as its maximum wage for skilled laborers, $1.90 an hour. (An unskilled laborer who works across the Chester River in Wilmington, Del., can earn around $2.40 an hour; a skilled worker at Campbell's unionized Camden plant earns around...
...deeply dependent upon the white community for economic security. Right after the sit-ins the colored community did manage to organize a boycott of all stores in town which do not employ Negroes. The only hitch was that after a week or so people grew weary of shopping in Wilmington and informally dissolved the boycott, having gained nothing...