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Investors' optimism was based on facts. The synthetics market has fluffed up in recent months (see chart). In cottons, a fresh burst of heavy orders has many mills booked solid through the first quarter, is bound to turn sales curves upward beginning this month. The price of the industry's bellwether grade of unfinished cloth has climbed well above April's 12-year low, has advanced 7% in recent weeks. Prices have jumped as much as 12% for industrial textiles used in such things as cars and shoes...
...million, is increasing by about 15 million a year. At this rate, there will be a billion Chinese by 1980, more than 2 billion by the turn of the century. In terms of per-capita production, Mao's China still lags far behind Japan or Formosa (see chart). Worse yet, despite mammoth irrigation and reclamation projects, population growth has cut the amount of cultivated land per person in Red China from .462 acres in 1953 to .429 acres...
...diseased left testicle. In the morning, each patient got preliminary anesthetic, and was trundled off to the operating rooms. One room was reserved for Dr. Ray, one for Dr. Graves. That, said Plaintiff Huggins, was where things went wrong: he was sent with Patient Slater's chart to Dr. Graves's operating room, while Slater got Huggins' chart and went to Dr. Ray's theater...
...farm, the outlook was not so good. The Agriculture Department predicted last week that net farm income in 1959 may drop 5% to 10% below 1958, after a year of the highest farm profits in five years (see chart). Hog and poultry prices are expected to decline, and crop prices will be lower as a result of this year's record crop and surpluses. Next year's crop may be equally large, or larger, partly because the Government will scrap soil-bank payments to farmers for underplanting their acres, thus depriving them of $700 million in payments made...
...month. Manufacturers' sales, especially durables, were still slowed down by new model changes and by cautious buying for inventories by distributors and retailers. But with retail sales on the rise, merchants expected the gap between increased manufacturers' new orders and sales to be only temporary (see chart). Other recovery items...