Word: half-year
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Basil Ransom had heard of the great Memorial Hall, and the ornate, over-topping structure which was the finest piece of architecture he had ever seen, had solicited his enlarged curiosity for the last half-year. He thought there was rather too much brick about it, but it was buttressed, cloistered, turreted, dedicated, superscribed, as he had never seen anything; though it didn't look old, it looked significant; it covered a large area and sprang majestic into the winter air. It was detached from the rest of the collegiate gronup and stood in a grassy triangle...
...disastrous first quarter as new-car sales slumped, managed a brighter second quarter as springtime customers appeared. Sales rose 1% in the second quarter, to $5.6 billion, and earnings of $522 million were only 4.4% below last year v. a first-quarter profit drop of 34%. For the half-year, profits were $911,567,400, or 20% below last year. Chrysler's Chairman Lynn Townsend reported improved second-quarter sales of $1.6 billion with earnings off 11%, to $54.4 million, from the year-ago figure but better than the first quarter's performance. Ford Motor Co. (see WORLD...
...TRANSPORTATION. Railroads, even recently lucrative ones, showed a drop for the quarter. The Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central, still waiting to merge, each had lower earnings for the half-year (although the Central managed to move out of the red in the second quarter), while a drop in car-loadings affected healthier lines like the Norfolk & Western, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, and the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe. Airlines were mixed...
United, the nation's largest, set a half-year record with revenues of $521,474,000 and earnings of $32,192,000, and Delta did so well that last week it an nounced a 3-1 stock split. But Pan American's second-quarter earnings fell...
...giant Jersey Standard, and aided by increased sales and firmer gasoline prices, the oil industry did well. Jersey set a record with half-year profits of $563 million. So did Texaco, whose earnings went up an impressive 8%, to $359 million. Mobil Oil also reported a half-year record with $184 million in profits...