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...industry tumbled out a flood of year-end reports last week. From smeary ticker-tape bulletins to four-colored brochures, the news was golden. Despite the squeeze of taxes and rising costs, overall profits for U.S. industry in 1943 were slightly better even than richly profitable...
...Mussolini, after the conquest of Sicily and the Italian invasion, the biggest news of the war had an air of anticlimax. The U.S., by & large, greeted the collapse of Fascism's cradle with almost complacent indifference. An old New York custom sent down a brief explosion of ticker tape and torn telephone-book pages from its sky scraper windows; on Mulberry Street the sad-eyed people of "Little Italy" over came their hurt long enough to pretend to celebrate for the benefit of news photographers. But otherwise, as in the rest of the U.S., the first sharp ripple...
...Skin a Cat. In Atlantic City, Valedictorian Marvin Smith, prevented by laryngitis from speaking his piece to the Coast Guard radio school's graduating class, set up a telegraph ticker on the platform, delivered his message by Morse code...
...second-quarter earnings reports began to clog the ticker tapes last week, one fact stood out: despite hell & high taxes U.S. corporations made more money than they had dared hope. The gloomily Republican New York Sun totted up 155 companies' earnings, came out with a 16.6% increase for this year's June quarter over last year's; a 14.1% gain for the first half...
...days in a row, every time the New York Stock Exchange was open for business, the shares of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. were among the ten most active stocks on the ticker. One day last week I.T. & T. hit 12¼, its high for the year and almost double the 1943 low. That was a few days after the company's annual report proved that the foresighted buyers, who got aboard when the stock was at 9, were right as rain...