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...selling waves rolled in. Yet the market handled the huge volume well; the ticker was rarely more than two minutes late. By early afternoon there were still some stocks that the specialists, trying vainly to find buyers for or finance themselves, could not handle. American Tobacco, Du Pont, Procter & Gamble, General Foods were still not open. Not until 3 o'clock, 30 minutes before the close, did Du Pont finally get on the board. The price: 11,000 shares at 210, down a whopping 20⅞ points...
...Chapman Rose to Folsom's old job as Under Secretary of the Treasury. The Senate also confirmed Reuben B. Robertson as Deputy Secretary of Defense, succeeding Robert Anderson, after Robertson had divested himself of 75 shares of B.F. Goodrich stock (valued at $5,000) and 340 shares of Procter & Gamble stock ($34,000). Both companies do defense work...
...Distillers Corp.-Seagrams, $9,815,375; General Foods, $9,351,441; Procter & Gamble, $7,251,400; Lever Bros., $6,803,797; National Distillers Products Corp., $6,718,375; Schenley Industries...
...virtually a pauper, but plucky little Mary McLeod Bethune was also a dreamer. In 1904, with only $1.50 in cash, she started a school for Negro girls in Daytona Beach, Fla., and then she wanted none other than Soap Tycoon James N. Gamble, son of the founder of Procter & Gamble, to be a trustee. "But where," asked Gamble as he gazed at her shacklike building on the former city dump known as Hell's Hole, "is this school of which you wish me to be a trustee?" "In my mind," replied Mary Bethune. "And in my soul." James Gamble...
...more and more jobs are opening up for handicapped workers. What the handicapped lose in flexibility because of their disability, they make up by concentrating on a single job, or a few jobs, learning to do them better. Firestone has 150 deaf employees alone. Allis-Chalmers, IBM, Hughes Tool, Procter & Gamble, Bui-ova Watch Co., Eli Lilly (drugs) have all found use for handicapped workers; electronic firms such as RCA, Western Electric, General Electric are using them to assemble delicate TV and radar circuits. At Lockheed's big plant at Marietta, Ga., the company last year saved...