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...soaring. Quarterly sales were up 11% to $253 million and earnings up 79% to $4.20 a share. Except for the textile, steel and auto industries, most big corporations did well. General Foods reported the biggest second-quarter earnings in its history: up 90% to $1.88; Du Pont's first-half earnings were up 33% to $3.22 a share; National Gypsum (building materials) up 48% to $2.09; Allis-Chalmers...
Taking full advantage of several penalties against the Crimson, the Blue scored four first-half goals when the Crimson had a man out. Eli attackmen Jack Taylor and Jack White were continually free at the crease as the fast passwork forced Crimson defensemen to leave the extra man unguarded...
...varsity basketball team should have "stood in bed" last night. Or at least it should have stayed away for the first-half of a nightmarish 73 to 52 loss to Boston College in which it fell behind, 32 to 7, at one point. The Crimson tried hard in the third quarter to make it up, but the closest it came was within nine points after six minutes had gone by. The Eagles won easily after that splurge...
...along with its net ($2.12 per share v. $2.20 in 1951). On the other hand, fast-expanding Mathieson (TIME, July 21) racked up a 9% profit gain to $2,900,000, and drugmaker Parke, Davis, which has been able to turn a profit for 75 consecutive years, reported record first-half sales of $71 million (up 3%) and record earnings of $10 million...
...character, a petition is somewhat of a plebiscite since it restricts the individual's freedom of opinion. The late Adolph Hitler, in the first-half of his best-seller "Mein Kampf," explained at length how to win a plebiscite. His psychology of the masses, although it is at times very accurate, does not correspond in the least to our ideals of democracy...