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Massachusetts: The 1960 presidential hopes of rich, boyish John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 41, got a hefty boost from the 3-1 lopsidedness of his victory over Republican Vincent Celeste...
...Pennsylvania Railroad, after paying its first dividend this year, canceled a 10% pay cut for its 633 officials earning above $10,000 yearly. The line also gave a 10% pay hike to nonunion workers making less than $10,000, plus an 8? hourly boost to all union workers...
...from the Alley. By plowing back money into research. Elox has grown from a back-alley business with sales of $194,563 in 1951 to a gross of $2,260,000 last year and earnings of $158,874. With a 90-day backlog of orders, the company expects to boost both gross and net in its current fiscal year...
...used for everything from grain elevators to supermarkets and churches. The buildings can be raised by 20-man crews in two or three days. A Behlen supermarket including interior costs $7 per sq. ft., about half the cost of a conventional structure. With his bigger plant, Behlen expects to boost his gross from about $16 million this year to $25 million in 1959. But he deprecates his inventive skill, feels he only applied old principles to new uses. Says he: "Any engineer can design a complicated gadget that can't be produced. What we need are more engineers with...
...They Boost Prices, Confuse Consumers...