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...profit highs were also reached by such varied companies as Du Pont, Motorola, Texaco, Sun Oil, Minnesota Mining, United Air Lines-and those that did not set new marks contented themselves with hefty hikes. B. F. Goodrich raised profits 15.5%, and Reynolds Metals 25%. The nation's second largest railroad, the Pennsylvania, was up more than 500% in the first half, and the third biggest road, the New York Central, turned a $4,400,000 loss into a $10.7 million profit. If the second half continues at the first-half pace-which ran ahead of all estimates...
...TEXACO STAR PARADE...
...fortnight ago. Chrysler and General Motors have also been front runners, helped by last week's report that U.S. automakers built 13% more cars in June than in the same month last year. All those cars sent up demand for gas and oil, buoying the shares of Texaco, Jersey Standard and California Standard. The other significant gainers in the Dow-Jones have been Du Pont, International Harvester and Sears, Roebuck-the latter lifted by the upswing in retail sales since...
...TEXACO STAR PARADE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The second of Meredith Willson's musical variety specials, this one features Debbie Reynolds introducing highlights from her forthcoming film version of Willson's The Unsinkable Molly Brown...
...Save the Children!" Eatherly then took a more prosaic job as a Texaco salesman in Houston. Legend has it that he was tormented by a recurring nightmare in which he woke up screaming, "Bail out! Save the children!" (His wife says he slept like a log.) After his wife had a miscarriage, he was afraid radiation might have affected his spermatozoa. He began to drink heavily and pass bad checks. In 1950, he made a halfhearted attempt at suicide and was admitted to the VA hospital in Waco, Texas...