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I.D.S. has three other subsidiaries which invest mainly in real estate, and make I.D.S. the sixth biggest U.S. mortgage owner. I.D.S. has financed huge multimillion-dollar shopping centers at Wilmington, Chicago and Los Angeles. Last week, in a hunt for profitable new fields of real-estate investment, it spent $45,000 for advertising in a nationwide survey to determine i) where elderly, retired couples plan to live, and 2) what kind of housing they prefer (i.e., small homes, apartment kitchenettes, or what) When the returns are in, I.D.S. hopes to reach a lucrative new market that no big investor...
...twelve years, Piedmont's founder and president, Thomas H. (for Henry) Davis, 32, has stretched a $14,000 investment in a plane agency into an airline with twelve DC-3s and 2,230 miles of routes reaching from Wilmington, N.C. to Cincinnati. Although Davis' airline is technically a "feeder" (i.e., a supplier for trunk-line routes), 47% of its passengers ride only Piedmont. President Davis runs his line so efficiently that he needed only 24% in airmail pay per $1 of gross revenue to break even last year, while other feeders require as much as 46? for Southwest...
...seven years, the Justice Department's cartel-busting case against Wilmington's Du Pont and Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries has dragged through U.S. courts. In the interim both companies, charged with dividing up the world's chemical market and restricting production, have voluntarily taken steps to make the charges obsolete. Against the charge that I.C.I, does not compete with Du Pont in the U.S., the British company bought up Providence's Arnold Hoffman & Co., Inc., last year sold $8,200,000 worth of goods in the U.S. Du Pont, accused of monopolizing nylon, voluntarily...
...Stockholder Lewis Gilbert, a ubiquitous heck ler at meetings of large corporations, had com plained that the previous meetings, in Wilmington, Del., were hard...
...student is more mature, responsible, and studious than his predecessors, says Stein. He cites the decline of hazing and prank playing in favor of such acts as putting up student dormitories, painting and repairing homes of needy families, and performing various community services. As an example, he points to Wilmington College in Ohio, where students put in up to 400 hours each in building a new dormitory...