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Measured on the Richter scale, which counts any jolt over 7 as "major,"* the five biggest of Chile's shudders ranged between 7.25 and 8.5, striking along a fault line (see chart) that cuts through Chile's southern wheat-growing breadbasket and close to coal-mining, fishing and light-industrial towns...
Workers' Pinch. Since steel production runs several weeks behind orders, the steel industry's current low production. rate reflects a low point in orders reached in April. On an unadjusted basis, the rate of industry-wide orders has already started to turn up (see chart). U.S. Steel has noted the pickup in orders which, says Roger Blough. "are coming through in good shape." Most steelmen expect a real order pickup in August. By then many industries will have to replenish inventories...
Government. They still represent 5% of the working force, are actually higher than the figures for the same period last year (see chart...
With the gains there were signs that prices were creeping up again. The Labor Department reported that the wholesale price index for the month of March had risen 0.6%, to 120% of the 1947-49 average. The March rise, the largest in the past two years (see chart) was caused primarily by bad weather, which brought an increase in the cost of foods. Labor Department experts expect that wholesale prices, along with consumer prices, will creep up more than 1% this year...
...Dandy, by Ellen Moers. A chart of the dwindling course of dandyism, from Beau Brummell, who issued dictates to 19th century England on the curve of a brim and the blend of a snuff, to the modern male who trembles at the brink of foppishness when he folds a handkerchief into his breast pocket...