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Indeed, the big buying action on Wall Street these days is in the stocks of sound, old-line companies like Exxon, Bethlehem Steel and Du Pont. Such glamour stocks as Xerox, IBM and Eastman Kodak are still going down, partly because there is no shortage of copiers, computers or cameras. Also, many of the former highflyers pay small dividends or none at all. The standard industrial companies often pay dividends equaling 5% to 6% of the price of their stocks and so are better able to compete against other investments in an era of still lofty interest rates...
...have been going into land development or construction, or simply buying land and holding it for price appreciation. Chrysler Corp., for instance, has invested $89 million in diversified real estate ventures. General Electric has shifted 15% of its $3 billion pension fund into real estate. Other big players: ITT, Du Pont and U.S. Steel...
...mood for continual and, as it were, circular complaining," he writes, as the formal Sie changes to the intimate Du. In two and sometimes three letters a day, Kafka compiled a monumental case history of his neuroses. Each balanced sentence, each self-lacerating perception seems to be an end in itself. It is almost as if Kafka set up the situation so he could write about the turmoil it caused him. He despised himself for still living at home with his mother and father, a bluff haberdasher whom Kafka attempted to blame for his neurasthenia. For the full treatment read...
Makers claim that they have increased the comfort of the new poromerics by doing without the fabric interlayers used to back the first generation of artificial leathers. Those interlayers made the material thick and stiff. Consumers shod in Du Font's product inspired the wisecrack, "Corfam shoes always look brand new; they always feel brand...
...Du Pont officials profess to be undisturbed by the success of their castoff, claiming they did well to dump an expensive failure. Of course, they might feel otherwise if the Corfam shoe were still on their foot...