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Sam Selects Top Business Yarns of '61
New York AP surveys 1961 showing ten top business stories. Recovery from recession, stock market swing, Common Market tariff debate, nerves over Berlin crisis and defense spending, price fixing scandal with fines and jail for officials, Du Pont GM stock battle over 63 million GM shares, Murchison Brothers proxy win at Alleghany, Texas vs Wall Street, and cost of living rising gradually through the year.
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New York
Pawson
Europe
U. S
Berlin
Kennedy
Russia
Treasury
du Pont
Big Chemical Company
General Motors
Texas
Wall Street
Murchison Brothers of
Alleghany
Woolworth
Allen P. Kirby