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Better Living Sir: Your cover about the fascinating firm of Du Pont [Nov. 27] provided an enlightening picture of a famous name in one of the most baffling areas of modern science and industry. Aside from wishing the company success in making Methuselahs of us all, I hope that it enters the pharmaceutical field in the traditional spirit of hot price competition against those firms that were recently collecting scandalous profits from the sale of miracle drugs...
...Du Pont is far ahead of its competitors, but not as far as is suggested by some of the sales figures in your story. The sales of Union Carbide in 1963 were $1.7 billion, of Monsanto $1.2 billion. This year will find five companies in the billion-dollar class, with Allied and Dow also passing this milestone...
Gbenye and his rebel ministers had fled Stanleyville, and with them went more than 1,500 Ibs. of gold (valued at nearly $800,000) from the Kilo-Moto Mines and more than $6,000,000 from the vaults of the Banque du Congo. But many Simbas had stayed behind sniping at anyone who moved, and the mopping up was bloody...
Copeland himself last year earned $349,846 in salary and bonus-a sum that pales in comparison with the $3,400,000 he collected in dividends on his Du Pont and Christiana shares. But the statistic that he watches most closely is Du Pont's profit as a percentage of invested capital. The company always aims for a 10% return on investment, usually comes close to achieving it. This year the figure has risen somewhat above the 8.6% of 1963, but the gain is not enough to satisfy Copeland, despite Du Pont's rising sales. Says he: "When...
...remark that her stage manner would make an angel swoon, but her words would make a monkey blush. Devoting most of her last four decades to getting on the side of the angels, she scoured libraries and chateaux to add Crusaders' lays and a centuries-old Vie du Christ cycle to her repertory, which she performed on academic platforms ranging from the University of Vienna to Bryn Mawr...