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...must do our share of "coping" too. But, alas, unlike the political wife, I can never reserve time for our family life. I can only be tempted by Mary Lindsay's approach to privacy-remove the phone from the hook for1½ hours each night. Do I dare...
...other industry giants, General Foods Corp. and American Tobacco Co., also had good news for stockholders. General Foods directors recommended a 2 for1 split, boosted the quarter common-stock dividend from 65? to 70?. At the annual meeting, American Tobacco Co. stockholders approved a 2-for-1 split, with a planned quarterly dividend increase of 7½? per share, to 57½? on the new shares. Company President Paul M. Hahn told shareholders that sales and earnings in the first quarter this year would exceed the first quarter last year, when American Tobacco earned $1.85 per share on sales...
...reported to include a limit on imports of crude oil and other petroleum products of 1,025,000 bbl. daily, compared to 1,113,600 bbl. daily under the voluntary system. The compulsory scheme would be enforced by a Government administrative agency. Other recommendations made by OCDM reportedly call for1) a sliding scale of import quotas for smaller oil companies, based on the imports between March1 and Sept.1, 1958; 2) no cuts of more than 20% from voluntary quotas for any major importer; 3) no cutbacks on imports of residual oil for industrial and home heating...
...first federal budget presented by a Republican Administration in 21 years. Dwight Eisenhower last week set a new tone and trend. He called for1) lower taxes, 2) less Government spending, 3) reduced appropriations for future years, 4) a smaller deficit, and 5) the transfer of some Federal Government activities to private enterprise and to local governments. It was, said the President, the kind of fiscal program that used "necessity-rather than mere desirability-as the test for our expenditures...
Ebbw Vale. In contrast to Eden's cautious doubts, Bevan was in a mood of exuberant confidence when he got back to his sister's house in Tredegar. His wife Jennie Lee called him from Cannook (in Staffordshire), where she was running for1 reelection. Said Nye to Jennie: "Everything's fine here, my sweet. How are you -exhausted...