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...which concentrates on basic steels rather than high-cost alloys, announced alltime highs in second-quarter production (102.6% of capacity) and first-half earnings ($19.4 million). Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene G. Grace also reported profits 7.8% ahead of a year ago ($31 million). Grace went on to confirm reports that Bethlehem, the country's second largest steelmaker, was talking merger with the sixth largest, Youngstown Sheet & Tube (TIME, Aug. 2). The announcement sent the stocks of both companies sharply higher, Youngstown rising 5⅛ to 58 in a single day and Bethlehem gaining...
...look to me," Committee Chairman Karl Mundt told Ryan, "like the sort of fellow who would be pretty hard to get any preferential treatment under." The general evidently wanted to confirm the Senator's opinion of him. He said Schine did not get preferential treatment in the sense that things were made easy for him. But, he added, "if granting Private Schine passes to work on committee business was preferential treatment, he certainly got preferential treatment...
...journalist, Jungk covered the U.S. for Swiss newspapers from 1947 to 1953, patiently stalking U.S. science and industry to find poor little superman in a hundred compromising poses. The total provides dazzling new evidence for old-world prejudices about the U.S.-prejudices which most European novelists are content to confirm with a trip to Wall Street, the Bowery, the Deep South and Hollywood. Jungk found other hunting grounds...
Bozell and Buckley claim that this is the first exhaustive exposition of McCarthyism, and document evidence to confirm their support of McCarthy. On the flyleaf they issue a challenge for auti-McCarthyittee to disprove the book...
...support of EDC, the dangers of Communism and neo-Fascism. But the immediate threat to his new regime involved none of these, nor did it lie within the walls of the chamber. It came from a courtroom a few blocks away, where, as Scelba urged the Deputies to confirm his Cabinet, there unfolded an unsavory story of corruption in high places, of playgirls and midnight orgies and expensive decadence revolving around the figure of a marchese-come-lately named Ugo Montagna...