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...committee has just completed a nine-month study of campus housing needs, and has recommended the immediate construction of dormitory accommodations for a minimum of 300 students...
...them back to raise capital and 2) bought Fairbanks, Morse stock for $45. But he thought both were good deals. Fairbanks, Morse stock now sells for $56, said he, and Penn-Texas is on solid financial ground, is not being pressed by the banks from which it borrowed, had nine-month earnings...
...bones. We're studying a price increase carefully and see it coming-it has to come." Thus Bethlehem Steel's Eugene G. Grace broke the news last week that the U.S. would probably have to swallow another general steel price rise. Noting that Bethlehem Steel's nine-month net earnings tumbled (from $122.6 million to $99.6 million) along with those of other companies, because of the steel strike, Chairman Grace said that spiraling costs for scrap, ore and transportation had more than gobbled up the $8.50-a-ton price rise of last August...
...slump in farm-equipment sales has brought J. I. Case Co. some elephant-sized troubles. In its last nine-month fiscal period alone it lost a mountainous $4,403,000. As a way out of its troubles, the elephant last week enlisted the help of a mighty mouse: Case made a deal (subject to approval of stockholders) to merge with the American Tractor Corp., which grossed only $5,000,000 last year v. Case's elephantine $95 million, and lists the book value of its stock at a mere $2 a share v. $37 for Case. Yet Case agreed...
BIGGEST IRON PIPEMAKER, Pittsburgh's A. M. Byers Co. (nine-month net sales: $23 million), will be taken over by Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co., fifth biggest U.S. rubber company. In stock swap after long negotiations, General Tire has acquired about 75% of Byers' stock, will expand production and push it into General's booming plastics business...