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...third quarter are even better than expected. Of the first 100 companies reporting, nearly half said earnings climbed 5% to 50% above 1953's third quarter; seven blue chips (i.e., G.E., Du Pont, RCA, Texas Co., I.B.M., Continental Can, U.S. Gypsum) broke their all-time records for nine-month profits...
...because of a 30% drop in defense business, G.M.'s sales were down from $2 billion in 1953 to $1.8 billion. But profits, helped by lower taxes, were up 14%, to $160 million. Earnings a share were $1.79 v. $1.57 in the third quarter of 1953, or a nine-month total of $6.58 a share...
This week Jewish congregations all over the nation held special services to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the landing at New Amsterdam. The ceremonies began a scheduled nine-month round of tercentenary observances with the theme: "Man's Opportunities and Responsibilities under Freedom."* At the Manhattan synagogue of Shearith Israel (Remnant of Israel), the congregation founded by the settlers of 1654, the Rev. Dr. Louis C. Gerstein intoned the tercentenary prayer: "Lord our God ... deep gratitude wells up in our hearts as we remember that 300 years ago Thou didst guide a little band of Israel's children...
...Republican candidate for the state senate, where no woman has ever served. A former model and fashion writer, Mrs. Younger is the wife of Municipal Judge Evelle Younger, has a ten-year-old son. (A second son died of polio in 1947; Mrs. Younger herself survived a nine-month siege of polio in 1951.) She believes she won the primary on "a moral issue." The man she defeated: State Senator Jack Tenney, onetime chairman of the California Un-American Activities Committee, the violently anti-Semitic 1952 vice-presidential candidate on the Christian Nationalist ticket...
...Jersey's former Republican Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, 58, onetime head of the House Un-American Activities Committee, who served a nine-month federal penitentiary stretch in 1949-50 for padding his Congressional payroll and taking kickbacks, was homesick for the Capitol. He said that he is "thinking about the possibility" of running for Congress again. In strongly Republican Bergen County, where many onetime Thomas constituents are still convinced that J. Parnell was framed by vengeful leftists, the possibility did not seem outlandish...