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Died. Bessie Gardner du Pont, 85, first wife (1887-1906) of Chemicals Millionaire Alfred I. du Pont, biographer (Du Pont de Nemours, 1933) of the Du Pont clan; at her home near Wilmington...
...voyage in June 1914, admiring New Yorkers called her "the most beautiful ship in the world." Built at a cost of more than $10 million, the four-stacked* Aquitania, with her nine decks, and quarters for 2,870 passengers, marked a new peak in luxurious ocean travel. But at first she had little time to show...
When the time came to hand out the $50,000 first prize, it was won by a simple roll with the fanciest name of all-the "water-rising nut twist." The winner: Mrs. Ralph E. Smafield, 32, wife of a Detroit electrical engineer. The recipe, as expected, was a family treasure, which Mrs. Smafield got from her mother who "got it 25 years ago from a friend in Wisconsin." Pillsbury labeled it top secret, saved it for publication later...
Minute Maid Corp., one of the first companies to market frozen orange juice, last week became the owner of its own fruit groves. For $5,000,000, it bought 4,700 acres of orange and grapefruit groves near its three processing plants in Florida from Di Giorgio Fruit Corp., one of the biggest U.S. fruit growers...
...C.I.O., which has frequently demanded a look at a company's balance sheet, last week for the first time disclosed its own, as required by the Taft-Hartley Act. In the C.I.O. News, the union said that on Sept. 30 it had a net worth of $1,480,313, "about 25? for each C.I.O. union member" in the U.S. On this basis, C.I.O. membership was 5,900,000. The union listed its year's income at $3,040,390, and expenditures at $2,883,215. It set forth that its net worth had increased $157,175 since...