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...Solution. In Wilmington, Del. last week, a federal court approved the first step of his plan: liquidation of the $7 and $6 prior preferred stock with payment of $93 million in stock from Standard's operating companies (Duquesne Light, Wisconsin Public Service, Oklahoma Gas & Electric). In the next two steps, Boshell plans to liquidate the $4 preferred by a similar payoff, and then the common. By mid-1953 he hopes to end Standard's existence-and his own job. Under Boshell's shrewd management, Standard's once "worthless common" is again listed on the Big Board...
Roger B. Spaulding, Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Public Health, said last night he had received a message from Davis announcing the Miru's safe arrival at Wilmington after having weathered several storms at sea. Spaulding said other vessels of that size had been in severe danger...
Since crossing the Panama Canal the Miru has been making its way up the east coast. Before its arrival at Wilmington yesterday the Coast Guard had last reported the craft at St. Simon's Island, Ga., on the 17th of this month. Spaulding said the Miru will probably dock at Boston in a week's time if the weather permits navigation...
...Williamses are now very wealthy, by Sussex County (but not Wilmington) standards. He is not a millionaire but owns a large interest in a poultry farm (300,000 chickens and 6,000 turkeys a year) and a hatchery (105,000 chicks a week). All in all, Williams owns about 1,000 acres of Delaware farm land, some of it in partnership with relatives...
...Wilmington went Williams & Williams. George called on Frank du Pont, gave him an impressive earful about John, persuaded Du Pont to call the Wilmington Journal and say that the next Senator from Delaware was going to stop in to see the editor. A word like that from a Du Pont (provided it's the right Du Pont) goes a long way in Delaware. That afternoon Williams & Williams convinced the editor that John was senatorial timber-or at least that he was good enough to take the inevitable beating...