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...audience and tossing down garters and other pretty trinkets. But only at her first appearance, coming-with snow on her picture hat-into a restaurant filled with ghostly elegance, to dine alone, to struggle with asparagus and be rebuffed by corn, to clip a lobster's claws and dip gloved fingers in a finger bowl-only then does Lillie achieve a definitive grandeur de folie, or the Follies recapture the grandeur that was Rome...
CONFIDENT CHRYSLER, which has increased its share of the market from 16.3% to 19% with its new models, is urging its 9,000 dealers to buy or lease new Chevrolets and Fords, display them alongside their Plymouths. Bouncing back from 80% dip in profits last year, company is spending more than $1,000,000 to push its "Compare All Three" stunt...
...Green River, hampered by inexperienced management and inadequate equipment, was hard hit by the post-Korea steel dip, ran up an overburdening debt of $16 million. For two years creditors tried to marry off Green River with 20 other companies. Nobody wanted Green River...
Steel stocks, which have helped lead the market up for the past two months, turned about last week and led it down again. All major steel issues sagged badly, from Armco's slide of 3! points to Youngstown Sheet & Tube's dip of gf. The main reason was a sudden pessimism, largely touched off by a gloomy steel report front-paged in the Wall Street Journal, and sent over the Dow-Jones ticker, which said that demand is disappointing and inventories are building up too fast. Steelmen thought the report was far too pessimistic...
...last week issued an earnings report that showed just how far it must go. In the third quarter of 1956, Chrysler lost $12.3 million on sales of $429 million, down $152 million from the same period in 1955. All told for the first nine months, Chrysler saw its sales dip 24% to $1.8 billion, and its earnings plummet 91% to $6,272,352, or 72? a share v. $8.11 last year, partly because of the $300 million outlay for new models. Next year, said Chrysler's President L. L. Colbert, should be a lot better: "Our production schedules...