Automakers Shine as Big Three Drive Profits Rise
New York AP reports sharp third quarter gains for Ford GM and Chrysler with Ford up 16 percent to 86 million while GM earns 217 million after a prior year loss from a strike Chrysler climbs to 6.2 million. Banks flag overall profits up 8 percent vs last year with autos, building materials, textiles and rubber leading gains.
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New York
Ford Motor Co
General Motors
Chrysler Corp
First National City Bank
Arvid Jouppi
W. C. Roney & Co
David Healy
Burnham & Co
U.S. Steel Corp
Bethlehem Steel
Stradivarius Found in French Closet
Frantz and Emile Baetz uncovered a violin bearing the Antonius Stradivarius cremo nensis faciebat anno 1716 inscription in a closet under a stairway at an old family home in Stradivarius found belley France. An ancestor, Eugene Baetz, was a Saint-Saens student.
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Belley
France
Frantz
Emile Baetz
Eugene Baetz
Saint-Saens
Antonius Stradivarius
Cremonensis
Beepers and survival chambers tested for mine rescue
Electronic beepers and survival chambers are being tested to aid trapped miners. The system would let trapped workers send signals and hear voices from the surface up to 2,500 feet underground. The conference, sponsored by the U S Bureau of Mines and University of Missouri Rolla, features Westinghouse project leader R E Taber describing a feasible portable communication system.
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Rolla, Mo
The
U.S. Bureau of Mines and
Mining Department of
University of Missouri At
Rolla
R. E. Taber
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Taber
Westinghouse
Bureau of Mines
Colorado School of Mines
George W. Keller
Keller
Charles F. Johnson
Denver Research Center
Boyce News Briefs Recap of social visits and changes
Local residents hosted and visited family members during weekends with multiple trips to Charlotte Fairfax and Front Royal. The items note anniversaries, home purchases, hospital recoveries and guests from Washington D C and New York.
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William Carr
Dole Copeland
Cody
Faith
Sarah Silman
Boyce
Joseph Sipe
White Post
Levi Seekford
Richard Seekford
American Legion
Front Royal
Alvin Thompson
Alexandria
Dick Kibler
W.L. Shepherd
Fannie Shepherd
Carroll Walter Shepherd
Hampton, Va
Frank Yowell
Cy Greenwalt
Fairfax
John E. Carper
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Henry Pyne
Charlotte
N.C
William Price
DuPont
Orange
John Braungard
Hagerstown
J. Lawrence Garver
Eugene Schwarz
Fair Haven
N.Y
Carl Frazier
Stephenson
J.W. Martz
Roy B. Pyle
Ray
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Peter Cashin
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Bentonville
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PAN AM
Nontgorner
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Denny's
Rcavictor Color Television
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