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Died. The Rev. Dr. Walter William Van Kirk, 64, globetrotting head (since 1950) of the National Council of Churches' Department of International Affairs, co-founder (with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles) of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (1946), longtime (1925-50) executive secretary of the Federal Council of Churches' Department of International Justice and Goodwill, special adviser to the U.S. delegation at the founding (1945) of the United Nations in San Francisco, onetime (1934-49) popular radio commentator (NBC's Religion in the News) and sometime author (A Christian Global Strategy...
...NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The 13-page complaint filed in Detroit's Federal District Court charged that G.M.'s bus division (annual sales: $55 million) conspired with four major bus operators to corner 84% (2,724 units) of the bus market last year. Its largest competitor, the Flxible Co., sold only...
...Macy & Co. will open its largest branch on Aug. 22, a two-story building with 300,000 sq. ft. of selling space. Nine one-story buildings, housing no stores from Buster Brown Shoes to Woolworth's, will open in September. Underground will run an air-conditioned concourse. Outside there will be parking space for 17,000 cars. Total cost: more than $50 million...
MAIL-ORDER PRICES are going up again this fall. New catalogues for Sears, Roebuck & Co. are hiking prices 1½% overall, while Montgomery Ward & Co. is boosting prices 2% on some appliances and home furnishings...
WALL STREET MERGER will join Eastman, Dillon & Co. and Union Securities Corp., two of nation's biggest investment bankers and underwriters. To be called Eastman, Dillon, Union Securities & Co., new firm will have assets of more than $17 million. Combined underwriting business since Jan. 1, 1955: $770 million in corporate issues and municipal bonds...