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...Chrysler has been having its troubles (TIME, Jan. 25). Last week Board Chairman K. T. Keller and President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert told the worst. In the first half of 1954, they reported, Chrysler sales dropped 42% to $1.1 billion, while earnings dipped 64% to $1.81 a share. Directors forthwith chopped the quarterly dividend rate in half, to 75?. Keller and Colbert indicated that third-quarter results would be no better, due to shutdowns for new model changes...
...help pay the expense, the industry forthwith upped basic steel prices $3 a ton. As usual, steel will probably set a national pattern for the year: peaceful labor agreements, with 5?-an-hour wage raises, more fringe benefits and slight price rises...
...Berlin Conference adjourned, Britain wanted a three-power conference forthwith, on what the West's Indo-China policy should be at Geneva. But Dulles could not stay to confer; he had to hurry back to the U.S. to explain the plans for Geneva to Congress. In any event, as the British soon found out, a conference at that point would have accomplished exactly nothing. Reason: the French had no idea what they wanted with regard to Indo-China, except peace at almost any price...
While the anthropologists paused to congratulate themselves on their work, Dr. Humberto Fuenzalida decided that the body rightfully belonged in his Museum of Natural History. He took it from the freezer forthwith and carried it off to his collection of stuffed pumas and condors-a coup of science roughly comparable to a band of West Point cadets kidnaping the Navy goat on the eve of the service academies' annual football game. As soon as the students heard of the ab duction, they called in the press to claim credit for a find that "may change our knowledge...
...break. When American Woolen's board met last week, Director William Wardall, who had taken no part in the fight, resigned. With Morris now on their side, Dumaine & Co. were able to elect Bennett to fill the vacancy. That gave them a majority, and the new board forthwith chose as chairman Roy Young, 71, longtime banker and a director of American Woolen since 1947. 'The board's united now," said Dumaine gleefully. "Now we can do something about the company...