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Despite his previous three miles, Brew built up a big lead against Dick Norris. Second man for the varsity, Al Wills, who had just set a new Harvard record of 1:12.2 in the 600-yard run, came from far back to pass Dartmouth's second-best runner, Dick Schad. It was up to a fresh Otis Gates and anchorman Dick Wharton, who had just won the 1000, to hold this lead, which they did. The varsity time of 7:59.4 set a new Dartmouth cage record, only 1.4 seconds off the varsity record...
...boom in business flying brought light-plane-maker Cessna Aircraft sales of $16 million for fiscal 1956's first-quarter, 30% more than a year ago. In housing, the demand for home and factory insulation materials pushed Johns-Manville Corp.'s 1955 sales to $285 million, its second-best year in history. Increasing farm mechanization and highway building helped Allis-Chalmers to record sales of $535 million, up 9% over 1954. And the company expected 1956 business to be at least as good...
...annual rate of 7,700,000 units. This pace will probably not continue. G.M. President Harlow Curtice took another look at '56 sales prospects, whittled his month-ago prediction of a 7,060,000-car year to 6,500,000, which would still make 1956 the automakers' second-best year. He also announced that G.M. will spend $1 billion, a record for one year, on expansion...
...reasonably sure: 1956 will not be as good a year as 1955." General Motors' President Harlow H. Curtice, in Manhattan to open G.M.'s 19th Motorama, agreed: while "1956 will be profitable for everyone willing to work to make it profitable," it will inevitably be "the second-best production and sales year in the history of our industry...
...months, 60% higher than 1954. Du Pont hit new peaks with sales of $1.4 billion, earnings of $6.24 a share at the three-quarter mark v. $4.74 last year. In the booming electronics industry, civilian sales were so good that General Electric President Ralph J. Cordiner could announce the second-best year in history thus far-sales of $2.2 billion, record earnings of $141 million, despite a slump in military business and a 7% drop in third-quarter profits to $39 million. Chief reason: higher costs because of a shift of production to new plants. R.C.A. was zooming ahead...