Lukens Stock Lock Limit Moves Stirred Market
The Lukens Steel stock on the New York Stock Exchange traded wildly with a high of 110.50 and a low of 45.75 before settling around 101.25. Trading halted twice for order balance as officials noted unusual conditions in the market for steel stocks and stop orders. The company’s first quarter earnings rose to 3.53 a share from 1.43 last year, while Lukens remains a major producer of steel plates for tanks and pressure vessels.
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Exchange Press
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Coatesville
Comstock
Seek Cause of Explosion at Pittsfield GE Plant
Authorities seek the cause of the Pittsfield General Electric Co explosion that killed Albert Kosche and Charles Gormoz, both 38, and injured several workers. The blast struck a 100 by 40 foot chemical building where phenol is produced, as employees cooked resin in large kettles at high temperatures. Firefighters and company medics treated injured on site.
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Albert Kosche
Charles Gormoz
Georgia Chief Justice Duckworth Acquitted Of DUI Fined $50
ATLANTA Chief Justice W H Duckworth of the Georgia Supreme Court was acquitted on drunken driving charges but fined $50 in city traffic court for failing to stay in a proper traffic lane after his car struck two vehicles on Peachtree Road. He denied intoxication and attributed the crash to a jammed accelerator. Judge Frank White praised Duckworth's integrity but said he could not condone hitting the second car. Duckworth has served on Georgia's highest court since 1938.
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W. H. Duckworth
Georgia Supreme Court
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Peachtree Rd
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Georggia
Tolima fanatics die by own action rage slandered rites
President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla said on Wednesday that 25 people in Tolima died by their own hand during holy week as part of fanatic religious rites. The report notes the deaths occurred by self-inflicted throat-slitting and cites the state as Tolima.
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Colombia
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
Tolima
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