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...Among other Illinois companies with staggered directors' terms: Armour & Co., Great Western Railway, Sunbeam Corp., Swift & Co., U.S. Gypsum...
EARNINGS for third quarter are even better than expected. Of the first 100 companies reporting, nearly half said earnings climbed 5% to 50% above 1953's third quarter; seven blue chips (i.e., G.E., Du Pont, RCA, Texas Co., I.B.M., Continental Can, U.S. Gypsum) broke their all-time records for nine-month profits...
...share. Except for the textile, steel and auto industries, most big corporations did well. General Foods reported the biggest second-quarter earnings in its history: up 90% to $1.88; Du Pont's first-half earnings were up 33% to $3.22 a share; National Gypsum (building materials) up 48% to $2.09; Allis-Chalmers...
...Egyptian government has been building a road for the convenience of tourists, and recently, the workmen demolished an ancient wall, shoveled away a layer of sand and exposed a 150-yd. row of massive limestone blocks, each 15 ft. long and tightly sealed with pink gypsum. It looked like some sort of pavement, but Kamal el Malakh, Egyptian archaeologist in charge of the pyramids, suspected that the stones might be the roof of a long underground chamber. The tomb of Pharaoh Cheops had never been found. It might just possibly, he thought, lie under the row of stones...
...wooden decks were somewhat shrunken away from the stone, and so. El Malakh could see down and count them. The wood seemed in fine condition, as if the painters had just finished their job. There were no cobwebs, which is a sign that the chamber's gypsum seal had never been broken. If the industrious graverobbers of ancient Egypt had really missed the ship, it may prove one of the greatest finds in the history of Egyptology...