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...quarter of 1956, making it the best in its history, and voted a quarterly dividend of 60? a share on its recently split 4-1 common stock, equivalent to $2.40 a share on the old stock, or 10? less than last year. At year's end the company backlog stood at $1.3 billion (v. $862 million the year before), of which $580 million was in shipbuilding orders alone. Bethlehem's shipbuilding division, said Chairman Grace, "has finally come to life...
...labor racketeers (an average of 30 labor prosecutions a year). And to the surprise of some G.O.P. businessmen, Justice has commenced 157 antitrust cases since January 1953, won 25 convictions and signed 99 consent decrees forcing breakups of business concentrations. Brownell has 1) pushed a program that reduced the backlog of Government cases in federal courts by 25%. and 2) coun seled the appointment of some 68 high-caliber federal judges. His department helped win the Supreme Court decision on school desegregation, and it is his department that will have to work through the federal courts to make the desegregation...
NORTHEAST AIRLINES is finally airborne on its new Florida route, running daily New York-Miami round-trip coach flight with a DC6-A. Next week Northeast will also add a daily first-class flight on its Boston-New York-Miami run. The reservation backlog: about...
...October, 1955. At that time an overall reserve Plan was initiated, which established the sixth month plan for those aged 17 to 18 1/2. By encouraging people to enlist under the new plan, and by changing the reserve structure, the Army hopes to acquire a modern, always prepared backlog of reservists
Japan, in a recovery rivaling West Germany's, regained half its prewar trade, led all the world in shipbuilding for export (though Britain's backlog of orders is bigger), and placed third in cotton textiles. But Japan is still plagued by population growth. Ninety million people are congested in an area the size of California, and only 15% of it arable...