Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glenview Community Church should change its "billboard" to read: the Glenview Community Club. And its ministers should drop their titles...
...street from the bar, has played pinochle there nearly every day since it opened in 1939. Basso Meloni, 81. arrives each morning at 10, stays all day, takes a short nap after dinner, brushes his shoulder-length white hair and returns for the evening. He sings at the drop of a bocce ball, joins Peironi's troupe at least once a night...
...hard-hit steel industry, operating at only 55-4% of capacity, was down from the record quarter a year ago when it was still making up for strike losses in output. U.S. Steel, while running up record profits for the year, noted a fourth-quarter drop in earnings to $1.56 per share from $1.83 the year before. Republic Steel's net fell in the last quarter to 77? a share from $2.22 a year earlier, though the company turned its best earnings year since 1955. On the other hand, Bethlehem Steel rang up record yearly earnings, partly...
From the world's largest copper company last week came a dollars-and-cents confirmation of the industry's slump. Kennecott reported 1957 earnings of $7.32 a share v. $13.23 in 1956. The drop surprised few Wall Streeters, who are figuring on similar drops for Kennecott's competitors. They estimate Anaconda earnings at slightly over $4 v. $12.85 m J956 and Phelps Dodge at around $4.40 v. $8.72. Principal reason for the drop: a price slide that Kennecott's President Charles R. Cox called a "debacle." Three weeks ago Kennecott set the pace for domestic producers...
...their deposits, are running at 55% of deposits, are only able to take care of their best customers. Dallas banks have more borrowers than there is money to lend. Says President Benjamin Wooten of Dallas' First National Bank: "We're not going to drop our prime rate. Supply and demand should be the governing factors in the cost of money...