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...Senate Finance Committee, still trying to figure out how to pay for the Government's expenditures, continued to hammer away at a tax bill. By week's end, instead of adding, Senators had tentatively snipped an estimated $1.4 billion from the $7.2 billion tax boost approved by the House. In a long week's work the committee...
...rigs will be mounted on steel barges floated down a specially built canal. A new town will rise 17 miles north of the sulphur field and workers will be brought down to the mines by power launches. With a new mine abuilding in Bay Ste. Elaine, La., Freeport will boost its yearly output well over 2,000,000 tons a year (Texas Gulf Sulphur leads the world with 3,200,000 tons). With the demand for newsprint, fertilizer, rayon and other sulphur-users soaring year by year, Williams and Whitney see no limits to their future markets...
Every real gain in the U.S. standard of living comes from greater productivity-the ability of each U.S. worker to boost his man-hour output of goods. Normally, the U.S. manages to achieve a yearly gain of 2% in productivity...
...peak of $50 million, up 33% from the same period of 1950 (despite a 183% jump in taxes). Some of the gain resulted from a higher price for copper (24½ v. 18½ a Ib. in 1950). But much of it came from the 32% boost in copper production which Charlie Cox and his new team had managed to achieve in a year. This week, as the nation's copperworkers went on strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) , Charlie Cox's production gains were threatened and he faced the biggest problem of his new copper career...
Scarcely three months ago, the worst bottleneck in the defense production program was machine tools. But by last week, machine-tool makers had gotten, in rapid succession, super-priorities on metals and tools, the authority to reach far & wide for labor, and a 12% price boost. As a result, they were well launched on a 400% production expansion...