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...paper, Ultima Hora (TIME, Aug. 17). Lacerda exposed the paper's link with the government, campaigned against it in his paper and on radio and TV until Ultima Bora's editor was forced to resign. (Another result of the battle: circulation of Lacerda's paper jumped fourfold-to 45,000-and he became one of Brazil's most popular radio and TV personalities...
...president of I.B.M., Tom Jr. sits at the head of a far-flung world empire of 485 sales managers, 366 offices and 17 plants. The company's sales and rentals have increased fourfold between 1941 and 1950. Earnings after taxes in 1950 were $33.3 million, or $12.05 Per share. In 1951 they increased an estimated 20% more...
TANKS: Deliveries are four times greater than before the Korean war-but tank production before then was infinitesimal. Another fourfold increase is expected in the next year. On light tanks, the news is good: new models rolled off production lines at the Cadillac plant in Cleveland in March, three months ahead of schedule. New heavy tanks are due off production lines this month or next...
...planes, including six DC-6s, v. Northeast's 13 planes and no DC-6s) and longer. Its 3,937 miles of routes are almost four times as long as Northeast's. Delta is also the more profitable: during the past three years its net has increased fourfold to $815,751; in the first eight months of this year, Northeast netted only $274,000. With both ends of the combination getting more long-haul traffic, Delta and Northeast figure that their total business would jump by 50% under the merger. Together, they would serve 75 cities in 22 states...
Though its use has increased fourfold in the last decade, aluminum is still far from its peak of usefulness. To push it toward the peak, Aluminum Co. of America, which produces nearly half of all U.S. aluminum, last week offered U.S. industry a shining example of how to use it as an all-purpose metal...