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Burly (6 ft. 4 in., 240 lbs.) Oilman Taylor was out to make two points. The first was an item of interest to stockholders: despite Union Oil's whopping $18,910.860 profit, the highest in its history, the company still had to dip into reserves to pay for the year's expansion, research and development. The other point was for U.S. industry generally: businessmen must find more effective means of telling the public of their problems, successes, failures. Taylor thought this important enough to broadcast the film to cities where Union Oil has few shareholders, no employees...
Then he went to inspect a submarine, turned up later at the enlisted men's beach for his daily dip and a two-hour sunning. The red of his nose was peeling and turning to tan. He lolled in the sand in a T-shirt and white duck trousers, a canvas helmet shading his face. He looked like a man without a care in the world...
...most U.S. grocery stores last week, 97? would buy what $1 bought a month ago. Nobody was certain, but most Americans were hoping that this slight dip in food prices might be the start of the downhill slide from inflation. Last week they got a jolt...
...Friday morning, after another sharp dip, U.S. grain prices rallied. Some grain speculators thought the worst might be over. Richard Uhlmann, president of the Board of Trade, thought it was safe to speak some reassuring words for a CBS broadcast. As he finished speaking, an assistant rushed up and cried: "The rally's oyer! Corn fell 8? while you were talking...
...post-war bulge is flattening. When an estimated 5200 students scribble through the Memorial Hall registration mill today undergraduate enrollment will dip to 5400, 200 less than in September, marking the first step on the College's long road to normalcy...