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...Even though its mills were operating at only 47.8% of capacity, the company earned 85? per share in the third quarter, more than enough to cover its 75? quarterly dividend. While the third quarter was down steeply from the $1.38 per share earned in the second Quarter, nine-month earnings of $4.20 per share this year were well ahead of the $3.80 in strike-harassed...
...nine-month gains were racked up despite a slowing in the third quarter, caused by the lowering of the prime interest rate from 5% to 4½% and a falling off in loan demand. But with loan demand again picking up, 1960 seems sure to be the best earnings year in banking history...
...Katz and his associates are particularly enthusiastic about working in Nigeria because the country has an annual nine-month epidemic of measles. One out of four cases requires hospitalization, he said, and the mortality rate is ten per cent...
Departing Sydney for Calcutta, Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand's cliff-hanger extraordinary, labeled his upcoming nine-month expedition "the most important of its kind ever to go to the Himalayas." Its prime purpose: to conduct physiological tests atop the world's fifth-highest peak, Mount Makalu, which the party of 18 hopes to mount without oxygen tanks. But getting most of the headlines so far was an expedition sideline: Hillary's quest for the Abominable Snowman. Although he suspects that the abomination is just a snow job, Hillary is toting a special, hypodermic-firing blunderbuss with...
...Illinois' onetime (1949-53) Democratic Governor Adlai Stevenson, 60, believes in being prepared. Last week, with Stevenson still away on a tour of Latin America, his friends at home made known that he had enlisted as a fulltime speechwriter a longtime friend: William Attwood, 40, who took a nine-month leave from his job as foreign editor of Look Magazine. Attwood's assignment (for which he will be paid his regular Look salary by a group of Stevenson fans): to author a series of speeches on U.S. high policy, which Adlai Stevenson will deliver mostly to university audiences...