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...Du Pont will spend $800,000 on education in 1955-56: $75,000 will finance graduate study by high-school teachers of science and mathematics; the balance will go for advanced scientific training and research in more than 100 universities and colleges...
...volume hit 4,640,000 shares. General Motors, which only two days before had hit a new high of 107⅜ on rumors of a stock split, and then lost seven points when the rumor proved false,* dropped another 3⅝. General Electric lost two points, to 48; Du Pont was off 3⅛, to 167⅛. The Dow-Jones industrial average, which was at a new high at week's beginning, cracked 8.93 points...
Fragonard, some 30 years younger than Boucher, drifted with the increasing vulgarity of his time, trying hard to please the flamboyant Madame du Barry. Often he peddled his frumptious nudes to Paris' burgeoning demimonde. Fragonard also was a master draftsman with an inspired poetic vision, as proved by his sanguines (red crayon sketches) of Tivoli's Renaissance palace, Villa d'Este, surrounded by antique ruins...
That knowledge and confidence sent stock prices soaring all through the year. Spectacular gains were scored throughout the list, e.g., General Motors went from 60 to 98;* Jersey Standard from 72 to 111; RCA from 23 to 38; Du Pont from 107 to 167; Anaconda from 30 to 52. As a group, the biggest rise (an average of 165%) came in the order-laden aircraft stocks. Taking into account splits, Douglas started at 83, rose 177 points (it gained 34 points in the last two weeks alone); Boeing started at 49 and rose 99 points; Northrop started at 18, gained...
Died. Eugene du Pont, 81, a director of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. and great-grandson of its founder, father of Ethel du Pont Warren, onetime wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.; after long illness; in Wilmington...