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...NOBLE-SOSMAN Westfield, NJ...
General Motors, the world's biggest manufacturing corporation, has grown accustomed to earning the world's biggest profits as well. Last week Standard Oil (NJ.) made G.M. take a back seat. Jersey Standard's 1951 profits set a new record of $528,500,000 after taxes, up 29%. This, for the first time in six years, put it ahead of G.M., whose 1951 profits, hit by material cutbacks and excess-profits taxes, totaled $506,100,000, v. $834 million the year before...
Died. Rev. Joseph P. Connor, 56, Roman Catholic parish priest and successful composer of popular songs (The Miracle of the Bells, When I Take My Sugar to Tea, By a Waterfall')', of arteriosclerotic heart disease; in Teaneck, NJ. Pastor (since 1947) of St. Joseph of the Palisades Church, West New York, N. J., "Father Joe" wrote popular songs under the pen name Pierre Norman, under his own name wrote a mass in the Gregorian style. A member of ASCAP (American Society of Authors, Composers, and Publishers) for more than 25 years, he gave royalties from his music...
Fuel Fixer. An emergency fuel unit for automobiles and trucks was brought out by the Viking Tool & Machine Corp. of Belleville, NJ. The gadget, which holds one gallon of gas, is installed on the carburetor, and operates independently of the regular fuel system. It is guaranteed to start a car when it is out of gas, has a frozen or leaky gas line or a faulty fuel pump. Price...
Humble is 72.4% owned by Standard Oil Co. (NJ.),and is its biggest U.S. subsidiary, but Baker runs it, from the Humble Building in Houston, pretty much like a sovereignty, looks on the parent company much as Texas looks on the rest...