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...least tried to influence G.M.'s buying policies, the court cited letters and memos written by Du Pont officers (none later than 1926). Item: Treasurer Raskob's 1917 report, arguing that purchase of G.M. stock "will undoubtedly secure for us" the entire G.M. market for paints, artificial leather and other Du Pont products. Concluded the highest court: "The inference is overwhelming that Du Font's commanding position was promoted by its stock interest and was not gained solely on competitive merit...
...Restaurant (on a cost-plus fee basis), the dining rooms are graded according to rank, with white-collar workers in one room, various executive echelons in the others. All rooms are air-conditioned, have piped-in music, and are pleasantly decorated (some in rosewood paneling, one with a pigskin leather floor). The kitchen is one of the world's largest all-electric cookeries, has a refrigerated room to keep all scraps. Socony's restaurant is probably the most luxurious example of a growing trend in U.S. business. Last year 41,000 companies served some 23 million meals each...
Other pop and jazz records: Atom Bomb Baby (The Five Stars; Dot). A rocking, slack-mouthed salute to a terrifying mid-20th-century paragon who is "a million times hotter than TNT." A candidate for success in the jukebox and leather-jacket...
...increase their yields, leaving it up to the Government to worry about their surpluses, while hundreds of new industrial discoveries have pushed the farmer out of much of his market. Synthetics, for example, have taken over 45% of the market for natural fibers, 62% of the market for leather shoe soles, and two-thirds of the market for household soap. Last week, prompted by the recent report of the President's Commission on Increased Industrial Use of Agricultural Products. Congress was considering a handful of bills to authorize a concentrated attack on the problem. Main point of the report...
Popping out of the French doors leading from his office to the garden, Ike radiated the good effects of his 13-day vacation in Augusta, Ga. He jovially accepted a leather-bound copy of the women's declaration, then, to everybody's astonishment, broke into a 15-minute extemporaneous foreign-policy address...