A former Du Pont official became a General Motors vice president and set about maximizing Du Pont's share of the General Motors market.

Competitors came to receive higher percentage of General Motors business in later years, but it is `` likely '' that this trend stemmed `` at least in part '' from the needs of General Motors outstripping Du Pont's capacity.

The fact that sticks out in this voluminous record is that the bulk of Du Pont's production has always supplied the largest part of the requirements of the one customer in the automobile industry connected to Du Pont by a stock interest.

The inference is overwhelming that Du Pont's commanding position was promoted by its stock interest and was not gained solely on competitive merit ''.

However, it determined that neither this factor, nor `` the fact that all concerned in high executive posts in both companies acted honorably and fairly, each in the honest conviction that his actions were in the best interests of his own company and without any design to overreach anyone, including Du Pont's competitors '', outweighed the Government's claim for relief.

The Government, deeming these suggestions inadequate, had urged that any judgment include divestiture of Du Pont's shares of General Motors.

Counsel for the Government invited Du Pont's views on this proposal before recommending a specific program, but stated that if the court desired, or if counsel for Du Pont thought further discussion would not be profitable, the Government was prepared to submit a plan within thirty days.

Christiana Securities Company and Delaware Realty & Investment Company, major stockholders in Du Pont, and the stockholders of Delaware were dealt with specially by provisions requiring the annual sale by a trustee, again over a ten-year period, of Du Pont's General Motors stock allocable to them, as well as any General Motors stock which Christiana and Delaware owned outright.

In addition, the right to vote the General Motors stock held by Du Pont was to be vested in Du Pont's stockholders, other than Christiana and Delaware and the stockholders of Delaware ; ;

The annual dividends paid to Du Pont stockholders in shares of General Motors stock would be taxable as ordinary income to the extent of Du Pont's earnings and profits.

In the case of taxpaying corporate stockholders, the measure would be the lesser of the fair market value of the shares or Du Pont's tax basis for them, which is approximately $2.09 per share.

These plans, like Du Pont's, contained provisions for passing the vote on Du Pont's General Motors shares on to the ultimate stockholders of Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware, except that officers and directors of the three companies, their spouses, and other people living in their households, as well as other specified persons, were to be totally disenfranchised.

Of interest is a recent announcement by Du Pont's Polychemicals Dept. of a new methyl methacrylate monomer designated as Monocite H 100, which was developed specifically for production of cast acrylic sheets for the sign and lighting industry.

Du Pont would be enjoined from having as a director, officer, or employee anyone who was simultaneously an officer or employee of General Motors, and no director, officer, or employee of Du Pont could serve as a director of General Motors without court approval.

Likewise, Kant formulated the nebular hypothesis, according to which the solar system was evolved from a rotating mass of incandescent gas, nearly a half century before its scientific value was made plain by Laplace in his Systeme Du Monde.

As these Swiss were moving from the Selkirk settlement to become the first civilian residents of Minnesota, Dousman of Michilimackinac, Michigan, and Prairie Du Chien was traveling to Red River to open a trade in merchandise.

The program came out of the NBC Special Projects department, and was slotted in the Du Pont Show Of The Week series.

Longwood Gardens, near Kennett Square, Pa. ( about 12 miles from Wilmington, Del. ), was developed and heavily endowed by the late Pierre S. Du Pont.

However the dismasted Tonnant, Commodore Du Petit Thouars now dead from his wounds and thrown overboard at his own request, was unable to make the required speed and was driven ashore by its crew, while Timoléon was too far south to escape with Villeneuve and in attempting to join the survivors had also grounded on the shoal.

Du Boulay retired in 1924 and was replaced by M. B. Williamson who served until his death in 1939.

The name Île de la Passion () was officially given to Clipperton in 1711 by French discoverers Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, commanding the French ships La Princesse and La Découverte.

The handheld pistol-and-trigger crossbow was invented in China in the 4th century BC ; it was written by the Song Dynasty scholars Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, and Yang Weide in their book Wujing Zongyao ( 1044 AD ) that massed missile fire by crossbowmen was the most effective defense against enemy cavalry charges.

The son of the gangster Du Yuesheng was arrested by him.

Du Pont was living in the United States at the time and had close ties to Jefferson as well as the prominent politicians in France.

The lots of Du Pre were auctioned off the day after Cornelia Trimble filed the plat.

*, Du Toit's patent for the Mine Flail, filed August 31, 1945, issued November 1949

Then I spoke at the ninetieth birthday party of W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, who embarked on a fictional trilogy at eighty-nine and who, with The Crisis, had created a Negro intelligentsia that had never existed in America before him.

Indeed, as already noted, the Court proceeded on the assumption that the executives involved in the dealings between Du Pont and General Motors acted `` honorably and fairly '' and exercised their business judgment only to serve what they deemed the best interests of their own companies.

The first pretrial conference -- held to appoint amici curiae to represent the interest of the stockholders of Du Pont and General Motors and to consider the procedure to be followed in the subsequent hearings -- took place on September 25, 1957.

Du Pont, he said, had proposed disenfranchisement of its General Motors stock along with other restrictions on the Du Pont - General Motors relationship.

Under its plan Du Pont would retain its General Motors shares but be required to pass on to its stockholders the right to vote those shares.

Both plans also prohibited common directors, officers, or employees between Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware, on the one hand, and General Motors on the other.

A massive investigation of the characteristics of in-migrants and prospective out-migrants in Ruanda-Urundi is being carried on by J. J. Maquet, former Director of the Social Science branch of IRSAC, now a professor at l'Universite Officielle Du Congo Belge et Du Ruanda-Urundi.

For many years the Northwest Company had its southern headquarters at Prairie Du Chien on the Mississippi River, some 300 miles southeast of present-day St. Paul, Minnesota.

Activity by British traders and the presence of a colony on the Red prompted the United State War Department in 1819 to send Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Leavenworth from Detroit to put a post 300 miles northwest of Prairie Du Chien, until then the most advanced United States post.

Couperin also turns up along with some lesser-known contemporaries on a disk called Musique Francaise Du 18e Siecle ( BAM LD 060 ).

Beginning in 1906, Pennsylvania conservationist Major Israel McCreight of Du Bois, Pennsylvania argued that President Theodore Roosevelt ’ s conservation speeches were limited to businessmen in the lumber industry and recommended a campaign of youth education and a national policy on conservation education.

BAO recently achieved a new record in Sweden on the Svensktoppen chart by staying there for 243 weeks with the song Du är min man (" You Are My Man "), sung by Helen Sjöholm.

Two other versions of Knightmare were also made: one in France ( Le Chevalier Du Labyrinthe ), which ran from 19 September 1990 to 31 August 1991, and the other in Spain ( El Rescate Del Talisman ) which ran from 29 May 1991 to 1994.

Du Pré also performed the Elgar with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Antal Doráti for her United States début, at Carnegie Hall on 14 May 1965.

Jacques Davy Du Perron, bishop of Évreux, afterwards cardinal and archbishop of Sens, accused him of misquoting at least 500, and a public disputation was held at Fontainebleau on 4 May 1600.

* Karp, Walter, " Henry Francis Du Pont And The Invention Of Winterthur ", American Heritage, April / May 1983

'" The last of Gold's Discovering Lost Musicals roles in the series for almost a decade was as May Daly / Mme Du Barry in DuBarry Was a Lady at Her Majesty's Theatre in November 2001 ( which she had also played as part of the series in 1993 ).

Grenville was immortalised in Daphne Du Maurier's 1948 novel The King's General, which has subsequently been adapted into a play, which is to be performed at Restormel Castle, Cornwall in May 2009.

Du cubisme et après " from 9 May to 22 September 2012.

* " Chinese JJJ Rules and Judgement ", by John Du, Beijing, May 2010, by China Society Pressing House

In May 2008, the Women's Choir Dona Bella was awarded Best Overall Choir, the " Esprit Du Cour-Ensemble of the Festival " and given the highest rating in the nine year history of the San Francisco Music in the Parks.

André Duchesne ( May 1584-May 30, 1640 ) ( sometimes Du Chesne, Latinized Andreas Chesneus, Andreas Quercetanus, or Andreas Querneus ) was a French geographer and historian, generally styled the father of French history.

* Privateer Du Guay Trouin of 10 guns and 116 men, which Unite captured on 19 May 1810.

The Dutch playwright Carl Slotboom wrote a play based on Perel's story called " Du sollst leben " ( Dutch: " Je zult leven "; English: " Thou Shalt Live "), which was first aired in Zevenbergen, Netherlands on May 4th, 2012, which is also Remembrance Day in the Netherlands.

Du Pont was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant of Engineers upon his graduation from West Point on 6 May 1861.

* My angel ( used again towards the end of this letter ): see “ farewell angel – of my heart – of my life .” (# 219, April 1805 ) – this also uses the intimate German “ Du ” (" Leb wohl Engel "); “ farewell angel of my heart ” (# 220, April / May 1805 ).

In April / May 2011 Cirque Du Soleil did a 2 week run of its 1992 production Saltimbanco at Challenge Stadium

* Cirque Du Soleil-21 April to 8 May 2011

" Running Away ", a cover of the Sly Stone classic, appeared in May on Les Disques Du Crépuscule subsidiary Operation Twilight and reached number 19 on the UK Independent Chart, its success unhampered by the simultaneous release of another version by The Raincoats.