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...Zero to one hundred to one thousand! BOOM!!" thundered the tape recorder. There was another silence, and then the machine resumed in a matter-of-fact tone: "You see that we have quite a margin to expand above 4.0." (The number refers to the Chart of Human Evaluation, which measures one's mental health by the standards of Dianetics...
...than shortening. The procurement time for parts, which should also be narrowing as the pipelines fill up, is actually widening. A year ago, it took Lockheed 38 weeks to get deliveries on landing gear; now it takes 56 weeks. On other components the time lag is often greater (see chart-). Cried one worried aircraft producer: "We have wasted a year...
...first nine months, said General Motors, 76? of every sales dollar went to pay its employees and suppliers (see chart); more than 15? (and 3? for every cent of net profit) went for taxes. During the third quarter, the tax bite under the new tax bill was huge, but not as big (on an annual basis) as it looked. G.M., like many other companies, set aside enough in the third quarter to pay all of the retroactive tax increase to date. Thus the tax boost ($30 million) was three times as big as it will be in future quarters...
Died. Lieut. General Hugh Aloysius Drum (ret.), 72, who as Pershing's Chief of Staff helped chart allied victory in World War I, was in charge of security and blackouts on the East Coast in World War II; of a heart attack; in his office in the Empire State Building, of which he had been head since 1944; in Manhattan...
...three years, the charging bull has pranced up more than 110 points (see chart), has put on weight despite such hammer blows as 1948's Berlin blockade, 1949's recession, 1950's outbreak of war. Each time, with nothing more than a momentary stumble, it has roared back louder and lustier than ever...