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ATOM POWER PLANT for Italy will be partially financed by $34 million Export-Import Bank credit. New facility, largest private industry nuclear plant in Europe (165,000 kw.), will be built by 1964 to serve northern Italy, at total cost of $64 million, using Westinghouse Electric Corp. nuclear equipment...
...nine months' earnings soaring ($3.17 per share v. $2.79 in 1958) on only slightly higher sales than last year, its directors recommended a two-for-one stock split, boosted the annual dividend rate from $2 to $2.40. For Westinghouse, the nation's oldest (73 years) and second largest electrical equipment maker (first: General Electric), the split climaxed a three-year drive to reorganize the company and recover from a crippling five-month 1955-56 strike...
...sharp contrast to the last stadium contest, the field should be dry and the weather clear. A crowd of 35,000, the largest of the year, is expected to watch the varsity endeavor to maintain its threat for first place honors. To do so, Harvard must stop or outscore the Tigers, and the first alternative is most unlikely...
...hard pressed for enough money to lend its rapidly increasing number of customers. Then Alexander pulled off a coup that Wall Street dubbed "Jonah swallowing the whale." He worked out a merger with the much larger Guaranty Trust Co., became the head of the fifth largest U.S. bank.-Overnight his bank's capital funds jumped from $89 million to $512 million. Now Alexander is expanding his business and, as an adviser to the U.S.Treasury and a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, is considered a spokesman for bankers on U.S. fiscal policy...
BIGGEST ALASKAN OIL WELL was brought in by Standard Oil Co. (Calif.) on Kenai Peninsula, 40 miles south of Anchorage. New well, largest of four being jointly developed by Standard and Richfield Oil Corp., has capacity of 1,300 bbl. daily...