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BRITISH BIKES are pumping ahead in their race against U.S. makes. Despite a 50% tariff hike last August, Britain shipped a record 538,429 bikes to the U.S. in 1955, captured 24% of the market...
...says ECE. But in trying to keep the boom from getting out of hand, many a government has resorted to high taxes, to price and currency controls that have actually restricted investment. All, says ECE, should attract more private investors into stock ownership, revise taxes and depreciation allowances to hike returns on risk capital...
...comprehensive medical insurance plan for faculty members and their families, and the extension of the University Health Service to all faculty members would apply equitably to all groups. They are, therefore, preferably to a straight pay hike. Under the medical insurance plan, a faculty member, if he chose to, could buy insurance against the cost of serious accidents or illnesses at half cost, with the university paying the other half of the premium. The plan would benefit all insurance holders, but it would be most valuable to the hardest pressed faculty member at all levels, the family man. Younger teachers...
...objection to a similar study at G.E. Where a union suspects that the time study is being used by management to cut pay or fire workers, the stopwatch will always make trouble. But properly used, the time study is a tool that can not only cut costs and hike production, but boost both workers' wages and company profits...
...government's tightening of consumer credit, including a hike in the minimum down payment on new cars (to 50% of the purchase price), hit the industry where it hurt most-in the domestic market. In the immediate postwar drive for exports, Britain sent a flood of cars abroad. But when the government stopped allocating raw materials on the basis of exports in 1952, British automakers shifted to the easier home mar ket. In 1951 Britain turned out 475,919 cars, exported 366,622, but in 1955, when production had nearly doubled to 897,560, exports increased by only...