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BEST-RUN COMPANIES in the U.S. were picked by panel of 171 company presidents for Dun's Review. First five in order: E. I. du Pont, General Electric, General Motors, International Business Machines, and the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing...
...mutual funds, insurance companies) now returning to the market and the market's basic psychology improving, many Wall Streeters believe that the market is ready to respond to favorable news, take off on a sustained advance to new highs. Says Gerald S. Colby, partner of Boston's du Pont, Homsey & Co.: "The market is seeing better business ahead. It does not care what the economists are saying today. It is currently consolidating to go through 650-655 and on through its alltime high [of 685.47] by year...
REGULAR GAS is continuing popularity rise among U.S. drivers. Some 58% of sample group of motorists now use regular grade, says Du Pont's petroleum chemicals division, v. 50% in 1956, 48.5% in 1952. One big reason for the jump this year: low-octane-consuming compacts...
...high plateau. Nor to them does any "outsider" have any right to share in the revenues of the rich mines and plants that produce and process the copper, tin, uranium, and cobalt (60% of free world output) developed by Belgium's fat Union Minière du Haut-Katanga...
...independently attempted many of the experiments that Ives had performed so long before. But gradually, word of Ives's work spread among musicians, and his difficult compositions began to be heard. An astounded Paris critic summed up his achievement: "Charles Ives seems to have created, before the Sacre du Printemps, a style which by its audacities places its author among the pioneers of music...