Corporate profits rise as 451 firms report nine month gains
A survey of 451 corporations shows overall profits up 32.9 percent for the first nine months this year, with many firms posting record highs and some more than doubling earnings. Railroads utilities coal and metal groups led gains while hogs and textiles varied.
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Weak two bids and a brilliant bridge play by Field
In a bridge column by Oswald Jacoby the hand shows East passing two diamonds and West choosing to bid. Field wins in dummy, discards a club, and uses a sequence to both set and chase overtricks. The clever line targets potential 3-3 or 4-2 spades to maximize the score, yielding 990 points on a hand opponents could have passed.
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Hoover to Sponsor Truman Library Dinner
Former President Herbert Hoover will sponsor a dinner to raise funds for the Truman Library in Independence Missouri. Pauley serves as fundraising chairman for the Truman library committee in the Southwest. the project aims for a two million dollar goal.
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