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Your otherwise very excellent and illuminating April 16 article on Mr. Crawford Greenewalt and the Du Pont enterprises fell to a new low on the local market because of the spelling of the name of our town. It is Kinston, not Kingston. This has been true since Revolutionary War days...
...sales as well as profits, General Motors was tops. And with a big slice of G.M. income to fatten its earnings, Du Pont, though it ranked only 13th in sales, stood fourth in profits. Contrariwise, some companies with big sales ranked relatively poorly in profits, because of traditionally slim profit margins. A notable example: A & P (which has not yet finished auditing its fiscal 1950 sales, but expects a tidy increase) ranks fifth in sales but only 16th in profits...
...Thorgersen and the News (weekdays 7:35 p.m., Du Mont) brings a veteran newsreel announcer to network TV but can't make him comfortable. Backed by the standard props of a clattering teletype machine, a Korean wall map and the usual succession of still photographs, Thorgersen nervously shuffles through news releases with the distracted air of a man who has not quite finished his homework...
Enter the Communists. As Juin's proposed reforms failed to reduce Moroccan tension, a situation developed that was wide-open to the Communists. Although forbidden to join unions, 55,000 Moroccan workers signed up with the Confédération Générale du Travail, dominated by French Communists. The Communists had been against the Istiqlal in 1945, but by 1949 they were jumping on the nationalist bandwagon. More & more Arabs started taking part in Communist demonstrations...
EDUCATION : Johns Hopkins Science Review (Du Mont) because it is "convincing proof that learning need not be dull...