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...troubles that cropped up in flight, NASA has decided that it can probably correct them all and make Saturn 5 safe enough to carry a manned Apollo spacecraft into orbit this November or December. By eliminating another unmanned test of the huge rocket, NASA would save about $280 million and avoid further delays in its program to place U.S. astronauts on the moon...
Holders of IBM's 60 million shares will get one additional share for each one they hold, making it the biggest stock distribution in U.S. history...
...manufacturing stocks and 5% for bank savings accounts. But growth is something else again. As a result of splits-including this week's-and other distributions, a 100-share investment in 1914, which would have cost $2,750, has grown to 59,320 shares worth more than $20 million...
...Ford, with record first-quarter sales of $3.9 billion, up 36% from last year's sluggish first period, earned $222 million-an 84% increase that beat General Motors' 17% profit rise (to $457 million) but not Chrysler's impressive 280% jump (to $69.3 million) over the same quarter last year, when it was hit by an unusually severe combination of higher costs, lower sales...
...Steel, the industry leader, forged a 23% earnings increase (to $50.8 million), while second-ranked Bethlehem Steel posted a 36% rise (to $43.9 million), as stockpiling orders surged in anticipation of a strike this summer...