Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Growth Areas. The slowing in the economy means that overall third-quarter corporate profits will be down from the second quarter; many a company was so reporting. Yet companies situated in strong growth areas-particularly those that deal most directly in essential goods and services to the consumer-are enjoying better business than ever. The biggest U.S. business, A.T. & T., installed 700,000 new telephones in the third quarter to push the total in use past 60 million. The number of long distance calls climbed 6%. The result, announced A.T. & T. President Frederick R. Kappel, is that his company...
...Third-quarter earnings of Consolidated Foods Corp. soared 13% to 50? per share v. 44? last year. Spurred by what Chairman Neil McElroy called "the rather exceptional progress" being made by Procter & Gamble's Duncan Hines cake-mix sales, P. & G.'s estimated third-quarter sales and earnings were going along at about last year's 5% growth rate...
...quest for new products and more efficiency was a boon to some companies, a temporary check on the earnings of others. Benefiting from the office automation boom, IBM profits soared $5,000,000 in the third quarter over the same period in 1959, lifted per-share earnings for the nine months to $6.51 v. $5.57 last year. Aided by 70% load factors on its new jets, which now carry 56% of United's passengers, United Air Lines made a steep climb; President William A. ("Pat") Patterson announced record third-quarter earnings of $1.97 per share, up from...
...cement, but his move got him into a feud with Hawaii's powerful Dillingham family, which owns a share of a huge cement plant. Kaiser has also built the $4 million Kaiser Medical Center, the islands' most modern hospital, has built two clinics and is planning a third to accommodate 40,000 members he has signed up in his own health plan. His other Hawaiian interests include a radio and TV station and a fleet of twin-hulled tour boats (catamarans...
Married. Glynis Margaret Johns, 37, South African-born stage and movie actress, who only last year confided that "I get suspicious when I meet a man over 35 who is unmarried-I always wonder why"; and Cecil Henderson, 49, wealthy publishing house director; she for the third time, he for the first; in London...