Four steel firms and five officials indicted for price fixing
A federal grand jury indicted United States Steel Corp Bethlehem Steel Co Erie Forge & Steel Corp and Midvale Hoppenstall Co plus Open Die Forging Institute and five company officials on charges of conspiring to fix prices and rig bids on steel forgings sold to the Army Navy and other buyers. The case ties to no relation with the week’s steel price surge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Steel Corp
Bethlehem Steel Co
Erie Forge & Steel Corp
Midvale-Hoppenstall Co
Open Die Forging Institute
New York Stock Exchange
U.S. Steel
Roger L. Blough
Avery C. Adams
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Kennedy
General Motors Corp
Berlin split and debts, a column on U S Russia aim
Analysis by James Marlow notes Berlin’s division and East Germany recognition debate. He contrasts diplomatic moves with economic results like Texas Eastern Transm and rate refunds, while warning that formal recognition of East Germany would entrench a lasting split and strain U S West German ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Rusk
Andrei A. Gromyko
Berlin
Europe
East Germany
Russia
Hungary
Germany
West Germany
East
West Berlin
Contract On TFX Plane To Be Awarded Soon
Fort Worth AP report says Air Force Secretary Eugene Zuckert will recommend within two weeks which firm gets the TFX fighter contract. Finalists General Dynamics of Fort Worth and Boeing Aircraft of Wichita compete. Figures cited range up to four billion, not seven.
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Fort Worth
APF
Navy Lee
Fred Korth
Air Force
Sec
Eugene Zuckert
General Dynamics of
Boeing Aircraft
Wichita
Kan
Korth
Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf
Cooley rose from a three room tenement to a sixteen room Fifth Avenue penthouse before his wife compelled a sale within two weeks. Mary Winninger tours a Dallas mansion and discovers three grand pianos in the rumpus room as the host explains the family will take simultaneous lessons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennett Cerf
Cooley
Upper Fifth Avenue
Mary Winninger
Miss Winninger
Witnesses Listed in Salan Treason Trial in Paris
Former General Raoul Salan’s defense names witnesses for the treason trial in Paris. Included are President de Gaulle and former Premier Michel Debre. Attorney Jean-Louis Thiévi gnancour says Salan will remain mute unless witnesses are called.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Raoul Salan
Trisl
Algeria
de Gaulle
Michel Debre
Jean-Louis Tider-Vignancour
Salan
Baytown Newspaper Advertises Rates and Management Roles
The notice lists editorial and business positions including Editor and Publisher, Managing Editor, Office Manager, and Advertising Department staff. It shows subscription rates at $1.45 per month and $17.40 per year, with mail rates on request, and notes representation by Texas Newspaper Representatives, Inc. The page references a Baytown Post Office designation under federal act.
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Baytown
Texas
Who Was the German Chancellor Linked to World War I
A fragmented summary notes a Bonn University student who rose to Prussian interior minister, then Imperial German chancellor in 1909. It cites his role in ending World War I, the Belgian neutrality crisis, and the claim of a “scrap of paper” justification.
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Uni
Bonn
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Ine
Royalriend
jBighest
Germany
France
Washington and Washingtons early New York milestone
On this date in 1758 George Washington set foot in New York City as a young officer on the eve of the American colonies conflict. The item cites a March 1918 memorandum noting a prince diplomat and a 1904 marriage amid prewar tensions in Germany.
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Germany
New York City
George Washington
Effie
Mississippi River Delta Queen Voyage Echoes Twain
Washington report recalls a Delta Queen trip from Cincinnati to New Orleans with reflections on Mark Twain and Huck Finn. It contrasts past river life with modern cargo ships, tankers, and foreign crews along a changing Mississippi and notes the Huey Long Bridge and Baton Rouge refinery developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi River
Mark Twain
Cincinnati
New Orleans
St. Louis
Mississippi
Abe Lincoln
Huck Finn
Mississippi Valley
Caltex Perth
London
Olympic Light
Monrovia
Liberia
Pennsylvania
Sun
Standard of California
Texaco
Esso - Standard Oj
Sun OU Co
Arkansas
Missouri
England
Norway
Panama
Alena
Kaiser
Venezuela
Huey
State Capitol
Baton Route
Mother of Waters
Minnesot
Retail Sales In March Increase In Texas
The Texas Bureau of Business Research said March retail sales reached 5956 million, up 13 percent from February. February sales were 870.5 million and January 88 million. First quarter 1962 sales rose 6 percent year over year with durable goods up 10 percent from February and 18 percent above March 1961. Automotive durable goods led growth, while analysts predicted continued but not boom conditions into Q2. Consumer confidence rose due to high personal income and low unemployment, sustaining spending despite orders backlogs.
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Austin
API
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Texas
Chimp Opens Own Savings Account in Richmond
In Richmond Indiana AP report John Hilterman brought his 3 year old chimp Cuddles to Second National Bank to open an account. Bank officials studied the rules and decided the chimp could be treated as a minor, with Hilterman listed as co owner. Cuddles has reportedly performed tricks and been paid for them, though the deposit amount was not disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulton Lewis JR
Washington
Japan
Communist Party
Uncle Sam
United States
Pacific
Okinawa
Herbert Aptheker
Eisenhower
Hagerty
Kishi
Zengakaren
Red International
Union of Students
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Robert Kennedy
Herbert Romerstein
Kennedy
Tokyo
Waseda University
Richmond
Ind
Second National Bank
John Hilterman
Hilterman
Cuddles
Knowledgeable Bridge Hand Tactics Notable Finesse Lesson
North South vulnerable deal shows Jacoby guiding play to keep trump control while testing declarer. A heart queen and a diamond ace deception lead to a careful sequence, ending in a successful slam after strategic finessing and signaling.
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South
Jacoby
Declarer
Kay
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James Marlow Washington
Texas Eastern
Wilmington
Del
Texas Eastern Transmission Corp
Orville
Carpenter
United Gas Pipe Line Co
Texas Gas Transmission Corp
James W. Harm Grave
New York Society of Security Analysts
Dizzy Maypole
Ian
Tre Lvayer
Silan
Algiers
Baytown Som
Baytown Sun, Inc
Et Pearce and
Ashbel
Pred Hartman
Jim Boone
Preston
Pendergrass Sewnessseee
Beulah Mae Jackson
James HL. Hale
Eli Gites
Ssereee
John Wadley
Paul Putman
Dorrie Laughlin
Atyepbees Sted Bene
Texas Newspaper Representatives, Inc
P.O. Box
Mmebwr
TRE
Aaron
Itepee
Earth
Sean
Polk OF
Nan Jones
Central Press
Washington Report
Waseda
Yazo Tatsuya
Red
House Appropriations Committee
Congress
Chester Bowles
New York
John Rooney
U. S
Bowles
Chimp
Duluth
Salt Island
Welles Mountain
Beturdey
Lily Lie
Siam River
Jacob
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North Dealer
North East South West
Turin
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