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...Clark was equally fearful for his two eldest boys, 7 and 8, who had been spending the night at his mother's home in nearby Creole. Nevertheless, steady-nerved and set of jaw, he worked without letup for more than 24 hours. At evening of the second day, word got through that the two boys had been saved by being lashed to the tops of oak trees. His wife, he learned, had survived by scrambling onto the floating roof of the collapsed Clark house, but the children, though she desperately tried to hold on to them, were swept away...
Construction edged up to peak levels. Last month's $4.6 billion worth of new building set an alltime record. The Government reported that spending for new plants and equipment for the rest of 1957 will continue with no letup at a steady annual rate of $37 billion, 6% ahead of last year...
...most optimistic report came from the biggest company of all: American Telephone & Telegraph Co. "With no letup in activity," announced A.T.& T. President Frederick R. Kappel, the Bell System's second-quarter operating revenues totaled $1.6 billion, with a net income of $208.5 million, both about 10% better than last year and both new records for the quarter. Parent A.T.&.T.'s net alone climbed to a record $167.9 million v. $153.2 million in 1956, might soon be even higher. Said Kappel: "At present, the rate of earnings on the capital invested in the Bell System...
...they did some medical gumshoe work, sent interviewers to every house in town, turned up scores of additional cases. Some victims also had other symptoms, such as terrifying dreams, difficulty in swallowing, and a feverish feeling not justified by a slight rise in temperature. Nearly always there was a letup after a few weeks, then a series of relapses throughout the five-month period of study. Women were victims twice as commonly as men, and their cases were more severe. Inexplicably, there were no cases among children under twelve and few among oldsters past 60. Despite an estimated total...
Last week, frazzled by nearly three years of seven-day workweeks without a letup, Charlie Thomas, 59, announced his resignation, and President Eisenhower accepted it "with very real regret...