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Automakers are not alone in their troubles. Even the steel companies, with orders at a peak, are hit. Bethlehem Steel's gross for the first half reached a spectacular $876 million, but a doubled tax load dragged its net down 14% to $49 million. Only by boosting its sales...
The pressures are many and complex, but the most combustible are the most obvious: a record number of people employed-62 million; a record high of $250 billion in personal incomes. Bank loans have almost doubled since 1946, are more than $63 billion. In the history of the U.S., there...
Under President Dumas, Southern Bell expanded faster than any other A. T. & T. unit. Since the war it has put $100 million into new rural lines; its revenues have doubled (to $286 million), its telephones increased from 1.7 million to 3.5 million. When Dumas moves into A. T. & T.'...
* The Maoris, once supposed to be on their way to extinction, have doubled their numbers (from 50,000 to 100,000) in 30 years.
Late in 1949 the Navy decided that its research plane had loafed long enough, and had collected all the data it could at the lower limits of supersonic flight. Then the Skyrocket went back to the shop. Its turbojet was removed, the air intakes (not needed for rocket propulsion) were...