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...handed out a 9 to 15? an hour raise. Firestone Tire & Rubber settled for 11?, United Aircraft for 10 to 20?. The Aluminum Co. of America offered 9 to 13?. Chrysler had followed G.M.'s lead, and now Kaiser-Frazer came across with 14.4?; Briggs Manufacturing, Nash and Packard with 13?. All told, some 250,000 hourly workers got pay boosts last week...
...hard-driving new President Elpidio Quirino thought he would change all that. For two years no high government official had entered Huk territory without a formidable escort. Quirino made a quick but thorough tour of the disturbed areas, without fanfare and with no other vehicle than his own sleek Packard. In broiling La Paz, he spotted a stooped little man whom he himself, when Secretary of the Interior, had discharged as mayor (for insubordination) twelve years before. From the man's cartridge belt dangled a huge pistol...
PENNSYLVANIA: Harvard Club of Philadelphia: C. Walter Randall, Jr. '36, 2301 Packard Building, 15th & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia...
...Saturday's brief two-hour session, 2,590,000 shares changed hands-the biggest Saturday turnover since the feverish beginnings of NRA in 1933. As in the hectic days of 1929, single blocs of 3,000 shares and more changed hands without driving down the price (e.g., Packard Motor closed up ⅛ after one bloc of 21,000 shares was sold...
General Motors led the list with a net of $96.4 million on gross sales of $1,089,000,000, the best quarter in its history. Studebaker also hung up a record with a net of $4.2 million, up almost 162% above 1947's first quarter. Packard, which had been deep in the red in the first quarter last year because of steel shortages, totted up a $1.3 million profit, more than it made...