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A former Du Pont official became a General Motors vice president and set about maximizing Du Pont's share of the General Motors market.
Lines of communications were established between the two companies and several Du Pont products were actively promoted.
Within a few years various Du Pont manufactured items were filling the entire requirements of from four to seven of General Motors' eight operating divisions.
The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.
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.
This Court agreed with the trial court `` that considerations of price, quality and service were not overlooked by either Du Pont or General Motors ''.
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.
This, however, did not bar finding that Du Pont had become pre-eminent as a supplier of automotive fabrics and finishes to General Motors ; ;
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.
At the outset, the Government's spokesman explained that counsel for the Government and for Du Pont had already held preliminary discussions with a view to arriving at a relief plan that both sides could recommend to the court.
Du Pont, he said, had proposed disenfranchisement of its General Motors stock along with other restrictions on the Du Pont - General Motors relationship.
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.
Counsel for Du Pont indicated a preference for the submission of detailed plans by both sides at an early date.
The plan called for divestiture by Du Pont of its 63,000,000 shares of General Motors stock by equal annual distributions to its stockholders, as a dividend, over a period of ten years.
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 ; ;
Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware were to be enjoined from acquiring stock in or exercising control over General Motors ; ;

Du and married
Du Pré ’ s sister Hilary married conductor Christopher " Kiffer " Finzi, and the couple had four children.
Through her daughter who married Louis-Mathurin Busson du Maurier, Clarke was the ancestress of author Daphne Du Maurier, who wrote the novel Mary Anne about her life.
Du Pont married Sophie Dalmas ( 1775 – 1828 ) in 1791, and they had eight children.
Du Rose's favourite suspect was a Scottish security guard called Mungo Ireland, whom Du Rose first identified in a BBC television interview in 1970 as a respectable married man in his forties whom he codenamed Big John.
After returning from the Ontario in June 1833, Du Pont married Sophie Madeleine du Pont ( 1810 – 88 ), his first cousin as the daughter of his uncle, Eleuthère Irénée du Pont.
In 1982, Chen was married to Du Xian (), a former China Central Television news program hostess, who was forced to resign due to her sympathy expressed ( dressed in black and spoke slowly ) during the reporting of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 on June 4, 1989.
She and Du Bois married in 1951, the second marriage for both.
In 1636 Isaac, son of Jessen and Marie ( née Du Cloux ) De Forest, emigrated from Leyden to New Amsterdam, and there married Sarah Du Trieux, who bore him 14 children.
* Lord William Francis Montagu ( 1800 – 1842 ), married Emily, third daughter of James Du Pre.

Du and Nicole
Du Pont was born 24 June 1771, in Paris, France, the son of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours and Nicole Charlotte Marie Louise Le Dée de Rencourt.
" Jurieu defended the doctrines of Protestantism against the attacks of Antoine Arnauld, Pierre Nicole and Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, but was equally ready to enter into dispute with his fellow Protestants ( with Louis Du Moulin and Claude Payon, for instance ) when their opinions differed from his own even on minor matters.

Du and Charlotte
As a teenager, he had a crush on Axel von Fersen's mother, Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie, and in 1768, had a deep emotional attachment to the noble Charlotte Du Rietz, although it is not known if their affair was ever consummated.

Du and Marie
" In the 17th and 18th centuries, many infants were baptised on the day of their birth as in the cases of Francoise-Athenais, Marquise de Montespan, Jeanne Du Barry and Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo.
Du Barry in Marie Antoinette.
Circumstantial evidence claims him to have been born the illegitimate child of an unknown priest and a woman named Marie Du Fayt, though this suggestion is as of yet unproven.
Du Pont was born at Goodstay, his family home in Bergen Point ( now Bayonne ), New Jersey, the fourth child and second son of Victor Marie du Pont and Gabrielle Joséphine de la Fite de Pelleport.
* In Europe: University of Bergen ( Norway ), Roskilde ( Denmark ), Göteborg, Linköping and Växjö ( Sweden ), Greifswald, Hohenheim, Zittau / Görlitz ( Germany ), Poitiers, Du Maine, Pierre et Marie Curie University ( France ), UBS Vannes ( France ), Bologna, Parma, SDA Bocconi, Università di Cagliari ( Italy ), and University of Torun ( Poland );
Among her film successes were Madame Du Barry ( 1934 ), A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1935 ), The Story of Louis Pasteur ( 1935 ), Anthony Adverse ( 1936 ), Marie Antoinette ( 1938 ), The Sisters ( 1938 ), and The Little Princess ( 1939 ).
Tim Chipping would continue to use the Orlando band name for a planned folk-orientated second album under the working title Sick Folk ( to have included a collaboration with Kenickie / Rosita members Marie Du Santiago and Emmy-Kate Montrose ), before finally dissolving Orlando in Spring 2000.
Rosita was a band formed by Marie Du Santiago and Emmy-Kate Montrose, formerly one-half of the much-championed Kenickie in the immediate aftermath of Kenickie's split in October 1998.

Du and Louise
From 1584, the name of Louise Labé became associated with a courtesan called " la Belle Cordière " ( first described by Philibert de Vienne in 1547 ; the association with Labé was solidified by Antoine Du Verdier in 1585 ).

Du and le
The French author Auguste le Breton uses numerous examples of verlan, for instance in Du rififi chez les hommes.
Charles raised funds to fit out two ships: the Elisabeth, an old man-of-war of 66 guns, and the Doutelle ( le Du Teillay ) a small frigate of 16 guns, which successfully landed him and seven companions at Eriskay on 23 July 1745.
Examples include: Blignaut, de Klerk ( Le Clercq ), de Villiers, du Plessis, Du Preez ( Des Pres ), du Toit, Franck, Fouche, Fourie ( Fleurit ), Gervais, Giliomee ( Guilliaume ), Gous / Gouws ( Gauch ), Hugo, Jordaan ( Jourdan ), Joubert, Labuschagne ( la Buscagne ), le Roux, Lombard, Malan, Malherbe, Marais, Minnaar ( Mesnard ), Nel ( Nell ), Nortje ( Nortier ), Pienaar ( Pinard ), Retief ( Retif ), Rossouw ( Rousseau ), Taljard ( Taillard ), TerBlanche, Theron, Viljoen ( Villion ) and Visagie ( Visage ).
In 1992 they released Les Portes Du Temps which featured some of the first Swiss Rap hits, like " Fiche ", " Rira bien qui rira le dernier " and " A Gauche, A Droite ".
He is also known for making famous the phrase, " Du sarcasme est le balai du faible.
Du système social et des lois qui le régissent.
Montreal " le Comité Du Monument LaFontaine, 1931.
Besides important contributions to La France and the Revue des deux mondes, he wrote Du mysticisme au XVIIIe siècle ( 1852-1854 ), L ' Idée de Dieu ( 1864 ), Le Matérialisme et la science ( 1868 ), Le Pessimisme au XIX ' siècle ( 1878 ), Jours d ' épreuve ( 1872 ), M. Littré et le positivisme ( 1883 ), George Sand ( 1887 ), Mélanges et portraits ( i888 ), La Philosophie de Goethe ( 2nd ed., 1880 ).
in the PDF is the book ; the rest is another book translated from "' Du firmament des Catholiques, contre l ' abisme des heretiques: ou est monstré que le seul Catholique sera sauué, & que tous heretiques de quelque sacte que ce soit, & tous leurs fauorisans, sont exclus du royaume de Iesuschrist, tout autant que les idolatres & adorateurs du diable " by Jean de Caumont, S. J.
* France: Hägar Dünor le Viking ( French for Hägar Dünor the Viking, Dünor a pun on Du nord of the north, La Gare du Nord being one of Paris ' main train stations )
Du Saint-Laurent le majestueux cours ;
On August 2, 1745 the small frigate le Du Teillay landed Bonnie Prince Charlie with his " seven men of Moidart " on Eriskay to start the ' Forty-Five Jacobite Rising.
His principal works, besides the translation of Aristotle and a number of studies connected with the same subject, are Des Védas ( 1854 ), Du Bouddhisme ( 1856 ) and Mahomet et le Coran ( 1865 ).
Histoire & Armorial du Dauphiné ; U. Chevalier, G. Rivoire de La Batie / Famille Du Puy / Raymond du Puy ; le premier Grand Maitre de l ´ Ordre de St .- Jean de Jerusalem
He described this journey in his work Du Niger au golfe de Guinée par le pays de Kong et le Mossi ( From the Niger to the Gulf of Guinea though the land of the Kong and the Mossi ) ( 1891 ).
The polemic resulted in the publication of Du cubisme et des moyens de le comprendre by Albert Gleizes, followed in 1922 by La Peinture et ses lois, within which appear the notion of translation and rotation that would ultimately characterize both the pictorial and theoretical aspects of Gleizes ' art.
I remember a phrase by Daniel Toscan Du Plantier the day “ Les Visiteurs ” opened, which eventually sold 15 million tickets: “ Yes but there is this incredible film called " L ' arbre, le maire et la médiathèque " that sold 100, 000 tickets, which may sound ridiculous in comparison, but no, because but it was only playing in one theater for an entire year.
Heavy use of French-Canadian dialect and foul language has made this version of the film a cult classic in French Canada, where lines from the movie such as " Dave est magané " ( Dave's a mess ) and " Du hockey comme dans le temps " ( Old Time Hockey ) are common catch phrases.
" Du nouveau sur le Royaume de Pampelune au IXe Siècle ".
Réédition sous le titre d ' Anti-Roman en 1633, Paris, Toussainct Du Bray.
He also wrote several Latin and French dits between 1314 and 1318, among which Avisemens pour le roy Loys, Du roy Phelippe qui ores regne, De alliatis and De la creation du pape Jehan.
Dassin received an offer from an agent in Paris, France where he met producer Henri Bérard who had acquired the rights to Auguste le Breton's popular crime novel Du Rififi chez les hommes.
" Du nouveau sur le Royaume de Pampelune au IXe Siècle ".

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