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Premiers and Foreign Ministers forthwith signed a treaty that formalized the steps already progressively taken, and the Benelux Economic Union, the world's fourth largest foreign trader, was officially born. "There is no longer any doubt that we will stay united," declared Belgium's Premier Achille Van Acker. As a pilot plant for the European Common Market, in which the three small nations are joined with France, West Germany and Italy, Benelux augured well...
...including Beyond Anxiety, If You Marry Outside Your Faith, The Next Day. Out of his mouth came the kind of trenchant talk that was rare in Episcopal pulpits. In 1952 New York's Bishop Horace W. B. Donegan appointed him dean of St. John's -the largest Anglican cathedral in the world...
...apparently with some misgiving-a load of bananas at 25? a bunch. The bananas were a bonanza; in the U.S. they brought $2.50 a bunch, and Captain Baker quickly went into the banana hauling business. Since then his company has grown into United Fruit Co., the world's largest banana producer and carrier (1957 sales: $342.3 million), which currently accounts for 60% of the U.S. market. United grew so large that in 1954 the Government filed an antitrust suit against it, charging that the company controlled the banana lands of Central America and monopolized the banana trade. Last week...
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...
...Alleghany got the good news, directors voted in Allan P. Kirby, 65, Alleghany president and silent financial backer of Young for the last 20 years to succeed Young as Alleghany chairman. Five-and-Ten-Store Heir Kirby, largest single stockholder in both Alleghany (516,500 common shares) and Central (300,100 shares), will continue as president, also become chairman of the executive committee...