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...problems. Visiting the U.N., Nixon praised the U.N.'s handling of the Hungarian and Middle East crises as a "fine diplomatic achievement." As for Hungarian relief, said he, the U.S. and the U.N. "may have to raise their sights." Within 48 hours the White House added $4,000,-ooo to the $1,000,000 it has already contributed to the U.N. to help Austria meet the burdens imposed on it by the influx of some 130,000 Hungarian refugees. -j[¶ Prodded the Cairo government to show good faith by acting to restore Middle East stability. In conversation with...
...evidence to take Neff, Patman and Superior Oil to court. Last week U.S. District Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy read off the sentence: Lawyers Patman and Neff were fined $2,500 each, let off with one-year suspended sentences for failing to register as lobbyists; Superior Oil was fined $10,-ooo for aiding and abetting their failure...
...epitaph for the (estimated) 20.-ooo dead of Budapest, a Hungarian in Vienna quoted a phrase from Virgil: Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor, which translates: "Some avenger will some time arise from our bones." The question was, when...
...products are for export only, some 80% of its trade is with the Soviet bloc. Russia alone takes 47% of her exports of machinery, electrical equipment and optical instruments, reportedly at cut-rate prices set by the Soviets. East Germans say their steel production is up to 2,000,-ooo tons, brown coal up to 200 million tons, electricity up to 29 billion kw-h for 1,955, all double the 1936 output and way ahead of the wartime peak in 1943. Western authorities tend to accept these statistics, admit that the industrious Germans have made remarkable progress since...
...Fillip. The big surge in consumer buying also sent profits soaring. Giant General Electric turned in third-quarter earnings of $47,863,000 v. $45,127,000 a year ago, and reported its most prosperous nine months ever (earnings of $160,727,000 on volume of $2,962,780,-ooo). In the third quarter General Foods' net of $10,593,632 was only fractionally higher than the $10,356,780 earned the same period a year ago, but for its six months ending Sept. 30, the company chalked up its highest-ever sales ($468,593,496) and earnings...