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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illness; in Providence. Among the writers who found themselves by getting lost in post-World War I Paris, few achieved more publication than Elliot Paul. A bearded, balding man with the look of a Tatar khan, he was a familiar figure on the Left Bank for nearly two decades, co-edited the monthly literary magazine transition, which published and encouraged experimental writing by such Montmartyrs as James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein...
Since almost everyone seems to have decided that the recession will not get any worse, the main topic of business conversation last week centered around when the recession would end. The answer depended somewhat on who was talking. New York's Guaranty Trust Co. took a banker's grey view: "Prospects for a definite end . . . remain highly uncertain, despite . . . comment that the bottom may be close at hand." Said the equally august Chase Manhattan Bank: "It is possible that we may see an end before long...
...with a quarterly deficit of $2.800.000. pared executives' salaries by 10%. Chemicals and paper companies continued to feel the pinch. For Union Carbide, second biggest U.S. chemical maker (first: Du Pont), the first-quarter net tumbled to 70? a share v. $1.18 a year ago. International Paper Co. sales slipped 10% for the quarter, and earnings will show a sharper drop. In appliances. Whirlpool's per-share earnings were almost halved to 25? a share. Admiral Corp.'s earnings also dipped, and Philco "will undoubtedly show a loss" for the first quarter...
Americans were buying more food than ever. Kroger Co. earnings hit a record $1.27, up from $1.14 on fewer shares a year ago. National Biscuit Co. expected slightly better earnings than last year, as did General Baking Co. Grand Union increased its dividend from 18? to 20? a quarter on the basis of record sales. And General Foods, buoyed up by the best first quarter in its history, broke into the elite $1 billion sales club for the first time in the fiscal year ending March...
From 1952 to 1957, the U.S. imported only $61 million worth of heavy electric-power equipment, while exports of the same equipment totalled nearly $840 million worth. But General Electric Co. contends that even these small imports "threaten to impair the national security," wants a Government limit on imports. G.E. argues that U.S. power equipment has "greater proven reliability," that foreign producers maintain insufficient repair facilities in the U.S., and wars or political upheavals "may interfere with delivery" of foreign equipment...