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...Then, in 1950, the U.S. Census disclosed that this state of affairs was changing: there were only 99.2 men for every 100 women. Last week the bureau, closing its books on its July 1, 1956 re-estimate of the population, proved that women's ascendancy was no idle boost. The new findings: for every 100 females there are 98.4 men, a further drop in the ratio, caused partly by the continuing trend of female longevity, partly by a heavy reduction in male immigration to the U.S. after the great wave of arrivals at the turn of the century...
...time the alarm bell is ringing in the night." Both statements were remarkably similar in content. Both offered a powerful endorsement of the United Nations− certainly the strongest yet given by the Catholic Church in the U.S.-and in consequence they also provided a powerful moral boost to the crucial work of U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold (see FOREIGN NEWS). Both statements also contained support for President Eisenhower's handling of the crisis...
...industry is also throbbing with a headache over the Middle East. In Texas a major argument raged between independent oilmen and the big companies over how to supply Europe with oil to tide it over until supplies start flowing freely again from Arab fields. While major companies want to boost U.S. production, the independents insist that the shortage should be filled from existing U.S. supplies above ground, argue that production increases will only result in bigger domestic surpluses once the immediate Suez crisis is past. As of last week, at least, the independents were winning. The Texas Railroad Commission, which...
...pages 2½ days to get the full election story, and it was P&D's job to cut that to a one-day delay in delivery of the magazine to readers. P&D had lined up additional presses at our Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles plants, to boost production to a twice-normal total of 149,000 copies an hour. Its traffic men plotted split-second schedules of distribution by truck, rail, all available regular airline service, and ten chartered planes. Across the U.S. our own circulation men, including TIME Circulation Director Bernhard M. Auer and Newsstand Managers...
...lowered between the side rails of the frame to reduce its overall height by 3 in. to 57.2 in. in some models. Buick's engines will go up another 45 h.p. to 300 h.p. on all models except the low-priced Special series, which gets a 25-h.p. boost to 255 h.p. One new gadget: a "safety minder" buzzer, which can be set to remind drivers when they hit the speed limit...