Du Pont

The Du Pont was a mausoleum at quarter to three in the morning.

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"Employees remain in these industries because they have established promotional tracks, fewer competitors and union positions," Du Pont says.

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"Management employees often transition to different positions, divisions, companies and industries as they climb the corporate ladder," Du Pont says.

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"Employees remain in these industries because they have established promotional tracks, fewer competitors and union positions," Du Pont says.

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Du Pont, for example, created a central laboratory called Purity Hall – and by the late 1940s more than half of its sales came from products that had been introduced in the previous two decades.

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"Management employees often transition to different positions, divisions, companies and industries as they climb the corporate ladder," Du Pont says.

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Du Pont was also chairman of the Du Pont Company, unchallenged head of his old and distinguished family, and lord of Longwood, a private paradise of gardens and greenhouses and fountains arrayed across a thousand acres surrounding his thirty-room mansion, twelve miles northwest of Wilmington.

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Du Pont believed that taxation stifled initiative and trespassed on personal freedom.

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Du Pont had been a spectacularly profitable investment for Seagram.

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In 1913 Du Pont had produced 8.4 million tons of smokeless powder.

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