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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, the accounting tribunal of the French bureaucracy began looking around for an out. In quick succession the tower was turned down by the state railroads, post office and TV station. When private capital also refused to bite last week, the only remaining buyer in sight seemed to be the department of the Somme. But the Somme's Conseil Général has already put itself on record as waiting "until the government offers us the tower for a symbolic payment of one franc...
...figures came from Bethlehem Steel. Indestructible Eugene G. Grace reported sales of more than $2 billion, net income of $180 million v. $132 million in 1954; fourth-quarter profits alone totaled $57.5 million, an alltime record. With order books jammed for months ahead, Steelman Grace saw no decline in sight in spending, rather, continued demand. To meet it, Bethlehem Steel is spending $300 million to add 3,000,000 tons a year to capacity. Said Grace: "What little the auto industry has cut back, other [steel] users are knocking on our door...
...battle but won the war, Financier Louis E. Wolfson resigned last week as a director of Montgomery Ward & Co. Less than a year after the proxy fight that netted him three seats on the nine-man board, Wolfson stepped out because "my objectives are either already realized or within sight...
...that suave master of conquests--some 1003 in Spain we are told. In Mozart's opera the action covers just one day, but the Don tries like the devil to up his total by four or more. Naturally, he ends up with the devil himself and sinks out of sight to the accompaniment of the Underworld's trombones and smoke...
...been put on the market by Vocaline Corp. of America, Old Saybrook, Conn. Designed for both personal and business use, e.g., to talk back and forth on a big construction project, the Vocaline transceiver works over a distance of ten miles if the units are in line of sight, half a mile if there are obstacles between them. It operates over the citizens frequency band reserved by the Federal Communications Commission for short-range personal communications...