Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same pattern held true in many other industries. In aluminum, Alcoa's $13,300,000 profit was a 13% gain, but fast-expanding Reynolds Metals' $7,000,000 was a 111% gain. Neither the biggest steel nor the biggest auto companies have yet reported, but in both industries smaller companies showed big gains. Specialty-steelmaker Allegheny Ludlum had a 44% increase (to $2,000,000), and Sharon Steel's $2,000,000 was a 49% gain. (But middle-sized Armco showed a 3% drop.) In autos, Packard was way ahead of last year (see below), and Nash...
Coach Bruce Munro will try to work in some of his previously injured veterans and find a replacement for midfielder Pete Palches, still alling with a pulled ligament. Returning to action will be Ed Sexton, hurt in an auto accident; Monk Aiello, burned in a freak fire; and jim Telfer, injured on the spring trip...
Motorists owning automobiles with Massachusetts license plates will have to get a little blue tag on the corner of the auto's windshield by Friday if they don't want to find a violation ticket there instead...
...Rome, Producer Roberto Rossellini announced that, with the permission of his wife Ingrid Bergman, he was going to drive his twelve-cylinder Ferrari in Italy's famed Mille Miglia (1,000-mile) auto race this month. Said Ingrid, with the voice of experience: "Forbidden things are always so desirable. I thought if I said yes he wouldn't enter the race. Now I'm surprised...
...Bonanza. General Mills reported the hottest promotional gimmick in its history: miniature metal copies of state auto license plates, one-sixth actual size. In the two months since the company began offering a set of 49 plates (48 states and the District of Columbia) for $1 and four Wheaties boxtops (or 12 plates for 25? and one top), orders have poured in at the rate of 500,000 a day. To meet the demand, General Mills has ordered 21 million plates from the manufacturer, and the mailing firm handling the promotion has had to put on a night shift. Effect...