Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eastern railroads skidded (TIME, April 14). the Erie wheezed in with a quarterly deficit of $2.800.000. pared executives' salaries by 10%. Chemicals and paper companies continued to feel the pinch. For Union Carbide, second biggest U.S. chemical maker (first: Du Pont), the first-quarter net tumbled to 70? a share v. $1.18 a year ago. International Paper Co. sales slipped 10% for the quarter, and earnings will show a sharper drop. In appliances. Whirlpool's per-share earnings were almost halved to 25? a share. Admiral Corp.'s earnings also dipped, and Philco "will undoubtedly show...
...Pont Show of the Month: Weaving through a French chateau, London's Old Bailey, a revolutionary Paris square with guillotine, and some 30 other sets, cutting from love duets to orgies of hate, CBS gave Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities a revival that all but burst out of the TV screen. The play roiled with revolutionary turmoil, rang with Dickensian speeches by such able players as Denholm Elliott in the role of Charles Darnay, Rosemary Harris as his wife, Eric Portman as Dr. Manette and Agnes Moorehead, who played Madame Defarge as if the revolution depended...
...Pont Show of the Month: When Humorist S. J. Perelman talked with interviewers about his libretto for CBS's musical Aladdin, he mused: "It is an extremely simple story known to every unintelligent schoolboy. Very little exists beyond the bare bones of the legend. It will take 90 minutes. That means a whole lot of me ringue." Producer Richard (Cinderella} Lewine spooned up $350,000 worth of meringue, enough to satisfy all the princes of Persia - and give viewers indigestion...
...Pont Show of the Month: As a "renewer of old treasure," rather than a "maker of new molds," Thornton Wilder found in a one-act play by Prosper Merimee the seed of an idea for his second novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714," he began it, "the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." It posed the intriguing question: Did they die by accident or by divine plan? Its prose was clean and classical, its characters adroitly limned and it was constructed with the delicacy...
...went to New York four years later (1920) with $15,000 inherited from his maternal grandfather-and promptly lost it all playing the market. He went to work for General Motors, rose to be assistant treasurer at a salary of $35.000 a year before going to Du Pont as financial adviser to the late John J. Raskob. Du Font's top financial man. Young made his first million by selling short just before the 1929 crash, set up a brokerage firm with an old friend. By picking up securities that looked worthless to most people, then stepping...