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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The trend up in construction was led by road-building contracts. They took a hefty jump of 47% over October last year. For the first ten months, road contracts were 15.5% ahead of 1959.
Died. Dirk Jan de Geer, 89, Netherlands ex-Premier, who after the German invasion of his country in 1940 briefly headed a London government-in-exile, later returned to The Netherlands, where he spent the rest of the war, came close enough to collaborating with the Nazis to draw a...
Died. John Elliott Rankin, 78, for 32 consecutive years (1920-52) Congressman from the First District of Mississippi; of a heart attack; in Tupelo, Miss. A shrewd parliamentarian, for all his demagoguery, wiry John Rankin consistently backed veterans' benefits and rural electrification (he co-sponsored the TVA bill with...
Died. Donald Randall Richberg, 79, onetime New Deal lawyer who helped draft the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act, then shifted from business-baiting ("the despotic power of those 'royal families' which control large industries") to business-boosting (as counsel to Ford...
Most of the rise can be attributed to a loosening of purse strings in the federal road-building program. Washington has allowed states to take all the grants in this three-month quarter that they would normally get in six months, pumping an extra $718 million into the economy this...