Tulane Panty Raid Sparks Spirit Despite Losses
In New Orleans Tulane students and visitors hailed a four hour off season panty raid as a source of school spirit after the football team went winless. Four students were arrested for disturbing the peace with three convicted and fined or sentenced to 20 days.
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New Orleans
Tulane University
Tulane
Jeron la Fargue
la Fargue
Ed Louis
Houston
Texas
Dreamland
Profits Rise Among Big Firms Offset by Smaller Business Slumps
Fifty leading corporations after taxes for the summer quarter show 12 percent higher combined earnings than a year earlier, led by American Telephone and Telegraph du Pont and General Electric. While 27 of the 50 reported higher profits, many gains came from lower income taxes offsetting weaker sales, signaling a potential trend near the end of the earnings season.
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New York
American Telephone and Telegraph
du Pont
General Electric
Continental Can
Kaiser Aluminum
Marquette Cement
Rohm and Hass
Appointment of Executrix for Wilfred G. Marrow Estate
Notice from Linn County Iowa that Alma Marrow has been appointed and qualified as Executrix of the Wilfred G. Marrow estate on October 12 1954. Creditors must present claims and debtors settle with the executrix through the Linn County District Court Clerk. Albert P. Jenkins serves as attorney for the estate.
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State of
Iowa
Linn County
Wilfred G. Marrow
Hose Haying
Corporate earnings rise through third quarter 1954
The article notes large corporations drive gains while many small firms lag. Fifty leading companies earned a combined 343,017,014 in the third quarter, up from 305,681,803 in 1953, with summer earnings 21 percent above 1952 and near the 1950 peak. Some firms report improved September business and orders for a stronger year end.
Parking Lot Ad Hums in Pittsburgh Hotel Sign
A Pittsburgh hotel sign proclaims the acquisition of a new parking lot with the phrase Parking is such street sorrow reflecting a poetic view of urban parking.
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Poetic Truth
Pittsburgh
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