Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Autos. For the first time since 1957 Chrysler Corp. managed to make a third-quarter profit due to the sales of the compact Valiant and the Dodge Dart. While only $1.4 million, it compared with a loss of $34.2 million last year. Nine-month earnings were also ahead, $2.84 per share this year v. $2.73 last year. On the other hand, earnings of General Motors, hit by high tooling costs for its new compact cars, dropped 34% in the third quarter from 47^ per share to 30^ on a 5% sales increase. Nine-months earnings also ran behind a year...
...outflow of U.S. gold, resulting from a huge deficit in the U.S. balance of payments. (The U.S. lost $108 million in gold last week, bringing the total this year to $983 million.) The latest figures indicate that the U.S. payments deficit rose to more than $1 billion in the third quarter...
Chief reason for the third-quarter rise in the deficit was a flood of uneasy dollars that are always seeking the highest interest rates around the world. They flowed to such countries as West Germany and Great Britain as interest rates eased in the U.S. But the overall and continuing deficit in the balance of payments has a broader cause: the fact that the U.S. is spending more abroad on defense, economic aid, military assistance, tourism and private investments than it earns from its foreign trade, thus piling up foreign claims against the U.S. gold supply...
...other children, many of them from Hamden Hall, a suburban New Haven private school, which now plans to set up a sizable Moore-style lab. On the evidence so far, Hamden Hall may have to revamp its entire primary school curriculum. One girl of not quite four read at third-grade level after Moore's training; less gifted three-year-olds have been learning to read and print in only 14 weeks...
...Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer. The gaudy, grisly supermen of Nazidom strut their Wagnerian stage once more in a historical chronicle beside which most historical novels seem puny...