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STORE MERGER will put Federated Department Stores within a whisker of Allied Stores in the race for No. 1 spot among U.S. department-store chains. In an $18 million stock deal, Federated (Manhattan's Bloomingdale's, Boston's Filene's, Dallas' Sanger's) will take on Miami's Burdine's Inc., Florida's biggest (1955 sales: $42.8 million) department store, with four units in the state. In year ended Jan. 28, 1956, Federated, with sales of $537.7 million, was only $44 million behind Allied's pace, but now, with Burdine...
...spite of Democratic portents, however, Ives should still win--by a whisker. This is because there are not enough registered voters in New York City, Harriman's stronghold, to offset the Republican edge in the more contented upstate areas. The key votes belong to the two million upstate voters who don't have to register. If they all vote, Ives will win. And what may well drive them to the polls are the very portents that the Democrats, their natural enemies, are running ahead...
Cheered by such reports, the stock market went right on climbing. The Dow-Jones industrials average tacked on another 2.74 points to reach 292.39, within a whisker of the peak reached at the start of 1953. Some saucerites felt that the ride up the far slope of the saucer had already begun...
Slowpoke. What set off the wondering was a series of jolts which took as much as six points off Denver & Rio Grande and Amerada Petroleum, knocked the Dow-Jones industrial average down more than six points to 265.74, within a whisker of its 1953 low of 262.88 in June. But even more worrisome was the fact that railroad stocks, which had been leading the market until recently, actually broke through their year's low. To the dwindling band of Wall Street theorists who still follow the so-called Dow Theory, that was an alarm signal. If the industrial index...
Last season and this, made up to the last whisker like Charles Dickens, British Playwright Emlyn (Night Must Fall) Williams has successfully read from the master's works in 43 U.S. cities. Still whiskered and white-tied, Williams was back on Broadway last week. On certain evenings, he repeats last season's bill; on others, he offers a one-man Bleak House...