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Private Hope. Before week's end, Dr. Scheele announced that the P.H.S.'s testing unit, the Laboratory of Biologics Control, was being overhauled, given new direction, status and staff (with a budget boost of $750,000). All this in the hope that in future it could handle vaccines for polio and other diseases with a new sureness and efficiency...
...revenue climbed from $300,000 in 1935 to nearly $10 million last year; circulation more than doubled in the same time. Now. with Country Gentleman in his barn. Publisher Patterson hopes to apportion the Curtis magazine's circulation to Town and Farm Journal and boost the circulation and ads of both magazines even more...
TARIFF CUT FOR SWISS imports will soon go into effect, in an effort to mollify the watchmaking nation for last year's tariff boost of up to 50% on watches. In all, some nine items (from lace to taxi meters) have been dropped an average 44% ; however, the cuts will by no means wipe out the full impact of increased tariffs...
...this fall because of the rising price of steel. Though sales are booming (up 20% in some cases this winter) for most of the 300 companies in the highly competitive field, most manufacturers report that they can no longer absorb increasing costs of raw materials, will have to boost prices, possibly as much...
...manager, to vice president for all sales. President Elliott's first objective: halt Crane's three-year decline in sales and profits (1954 net: $5,800,000 v. $8,700,000 in 1953, $16,200,000 in 1951). To do this, he hopes to cut production costs, boost sales of Crane's bathroom fixtures, industrial valves, fittings, etc., continue diversification into such operations as mining rare earths, refining titanium, turning out aircraft accessories. To work with Elliott, Crane brought in Mark W. Lowell, vice president of Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co., to fill the vacant post...