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General Electric Co. turned in an all-time record with a six-month net of $77.4 million, 65% above the 1949 period. This reflected the recovery in appliance sales, bigger demand for heavy equipment, and the television boom. That boom also enabled Admiral Corp. to report six-month earnings of $8,400,000, more than double the $3,100,000 earned in the 1949 period...
...six-month period ending in May, 580 regular movie theaters closed down. But open-air drive-ins, offering such tempting summertime extras as car washing, shuffleboard courts and miniature zoos, are enjoying their greatest boom...
...immediately swept up in a round of lunches, lectures and broadcasts that would last through December. Fortunately, he was used to such treatment. Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, 62, well known to U.S. lecture audiences before the war as the "foremost Christian leader in Japan," had just finished a six-month tour of Europe...
...debate was a bill to extend federal rent control (due to expire June 30) for six more months, with a second six-month extension for those cities that wanted it. Administration leaders were pushing the bill hard for good political reasons-29 million people still living under rent controls were concentrated in such crucial states as Illinois, California and Pennsylvania. Harry Cain promptly announced a one-man filibuster, promised to speak "as long as I can stand...
...Protestants read the Bible more often than Roman Catholics; 31.2% of the Protestants said they had not read the Bible at all during a six-month period, as compared with 56.1% of the Jews, and 61.9% of the Catholics...