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...Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier...
...Lammot du Pont Copeland, president, E.I. du Pont de Nemours...
...compete against aluminum, concrete and other substitutes. Oil is competing against natural gas, plastics against glass, and the new aerospace giants, while trying to beat the Russians, not only have to wrestle with each other but also face such competitors as General Electric. General Motors and IBM. In 1950, Du-Pont had one competitor in polyethylene resins; today it has 16-which is one reason why its basic prices have melted 12% since 1954 and its profits will slip a bit this year even though sales will...
...year. But the bill for modernization came so high that earnings after taxes were an estimated 5.7% of invested capital, compared with 6.7% a decade ago. While profit totals are running at record highs, the businessman is finding it harder to raise his percentage of profit on sales. Says Du Font's President Lammot du Pont Copeland, 58, a Harvard-educated scion of inherited wealth: "Keener competition may be good for the economy, but it takes its toll in profits...
...Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction, Salinger (3, last week) 2. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier (2) 3. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (1) 4. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (4) 5. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna (5) 6. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (10) 7. The Moonflower Vine, Carleton (8) 8. The Tin Drum, Grass (7) 9. The Moon-Spinners, Stewart (6) 10. The Centaur, Updike...