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...meet growing demand, said he, the steel industry must expand its 128-million-ton ingot capacity by about 18.5 million tons in the next five years, at a cost of $3.4 billion. The only way to get enough cash, said he, is by a big boost in steel prices...
...implied that giant U.S. Steel, the price pacesetter, should boost prices...
...ATOMS FOR PEACE program overseas will get a boost from General Electric Co. G.E. has signed up to build Spain's first and Europe's second sizable U.S. reactor, near Madrid (the first: the 11,500-kw. Westinghouse reactor sold to a Belgium syndicate last November). The 3,000-kw. reactor will be used for agricultural and medical research and as a trainer for bigger power plants...
...similar study at G.E. Where a union suspects that the time study is being used by management to cut pay or fire workers, the stopwatch will always make trouble. But properly used, the time study is a tool that can not only cut costs and hike production, but boost both workers' wages and company profits...
...while unsold cars spilled over onto abandoned airstrips and playing fields. And there was worse to come. Britain's No. 1 automaker, British Motor Corp. (Morris, Austin, M.G., Riley and Wolseley) last week announced a 7.5% price increase. Though Britons rushed to buy new cars before the price boost went into effect, the industry still had 70,000 unsold autos at week's end and will find it even harder to sell its output from...