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...amazed that a serious publication can see fit to boost a production like Damn Yankees...
...Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Bernerd Anderson, 45, has decided to quit "in the next few months." One of the Texas "Democrats for Eisenhower" in top Administration posts (another: Health and Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby), Bob Anderson proved a real find as Navy Secretary, quickly won a boost and was for a time rated a likely heir to Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson. Anderson, on leave from his $60,000-a-year job running the 510,000-acre Waggoner ranch and oil properties, has recently been pressed to run for governor of Texas. He has strong support from both Governor...
...will build a new 1,776,000-sq.-ft. Fisher body plant in Mansfield, Ohio, convert a wartime tank factory near Flint, Mich, to body-parts stamping. Oldsmobile will expand its engine plant capacity 50%; Buick will boost annual capacity from 750,000 cars to 1,000,000 cars, while other G.M. divisions will install new machines, new tools, new automation processes...
...House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service approved a 7½% blanket raise for 1,073,262 Government employees, which will boost the federal payroll by $325 million a year...
...Germany, capital markets were more active in 1954 than in any other postwar year. Moreover, Europe built up a 1954 trade balance, i.e., exports over imports, of $1.2 billion, only $200 million under 1953's postwar record. For West Europeans, the surplus meant that they could not only boost monetary reserves, but allow more imports of dollar goods. Thus European imports from the U.S. rose $500 million in 1954, even though exports to the U.S. dropped by $250 million...