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...period compared with $4,202,036 last year. General Foods earnings for the second quarter were up from $5,317,523 to $5,953,765, though H. J. Heinz Co. reported lower net profits on higher sales for the year ended April 29. In the drugstore field, United Cigar-Whelan Stores Corp. reported higher net income, in spite of a sales decline of almost $3,000,000. About 80% of the railroads (most of them reporting for the first five months) and utilities (mostly for the year ended June 30) showed improved net income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: First Half: Good | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...Daughter, renegade Indians, a mysterious masked rider, a cowboy quartet, dancing girls, rustlers on a rampage. Comedian-Producer Ken (Blackouts) Murray is intrepid enough to show up in front of the camera himself at one point as a riverboat entertainer sporting a high hat, checkered suit and gargantuan cigar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 6, 1953 | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...possible means, legal or illegal. . . treason to Panther Bande punishable by death." The document was signed in blood. Werner lost no time putting the new constitution into effect: he promptly killed the boy who had tattled. Thus cleansed, the gang went into action. They held up a cigar store, tried to kill a bank messenger (whose briefcase proved to be empty) and stuck up a small Munich hotel. Their take was next to nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Panthers in the Streets | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...admiral who could boast of having served with Nelson at Trafalgar would still have known only a fraction of the history of war at sea. But, like a considerable group of still serviceable flying officers, silver-haired, cigar-smoking General Nathan Farragut Twining has personally navigated sloops, junks and frigates of the air. When he was named to succeed General Hoyt Vandenberg as chief of staff of the jet-age Air Force last week, he had already lived, airwise, almost since the beginning of time, and had participated actively in three of four major eras of warfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: History's Child | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

Close-Up. In Tampa, Cigar Manufacturer Karl Cuesta, victim of a series of burglaries, complained to police that the camera he had rigged up in his factory to photograph marauders had been stolen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 27, 1953 | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

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