Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Finally, in a frantic outburst, you claim that the M.D.C., "in an appalling example of un-Americanism,... handed over a quarter of a million dollars of tax-money (and plenty more to come) to a group of the socially prominent, and those who hope to achieve social prominence by fooling around in the theatre--at the city's expense." Not only is this statement unwarranted, but it is also patently libelous; and it would serve you right to have a defamation suit tossed in your lap. Neither the C.D.F., Group 20, nor any other local drama group is concerned with...
...Small. At Chrysler Corp., hardest hit of the big automakers in last year's sales slump, the comeback was equally bouncy. Saddled with a loss for both the second quarter and the entire year...
Chrysler rolled up near-record earnings of $4.90 a share in this year's second quarter, hiked half-year earnings to $6.65 a share on a sales gain of 42% over last year. The news seemed so good to President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert that he hastened to warn stockholders against expecting too much in the second half because of lower production schedules and the cost of building and introducing 1960 models...
...share, Jones & Laughlin hiked profits 642% to a record $5.31 a share, and Crucible Steel ran up a new record with earnings of $2.22. Seeking to explain the high steel profits, Jones & Laughlin's President Avery C. Adams pointed out that steel mills in the second quarter operated at 94% of capacity v. 55% for last year's second quarter. But he also noted that the $676 million spent by the company on cost-cutting, modernization and expansion in the last decade has a lot to do with the record profits. Kaiser Steel credited its $214 million expansion...
...only as a long, low-tar, lightly mentholated cigarette with "the longest filter yet," but as one of the few cigarettes since Camel to come in a package with a picture on it (of an Alpine mountain). Brown & Williamson, whose "Thinking Man" Viceroys thoughtlessly slumped 20% in the first quarter, clawed back with two new filters: the mentholated Belair, whose pack also boasts a picture: blue sky with snow-white clouds, and the non-mentholated, "high filtration" Life, whose motto, encrusted on every package in Latin, is: "Life Is Great." P. Lorillard Co. (Kent, Newport, Old Gold) brought out Spring...