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...expected to approve new version of law, which will increase (from $500,000 to $1,000,000) amount of Government business contractors can do before profits are subject to renegotiation. Law also doubles (from one to two years) period in which company losses can be carried forward to offset their profits...
Industry First. The visitors found that the biggest shortcoming in Soviet building is its overbalance. Top priority traditionally has gone to industrial construction, with badly needed housing a poor second. The Russians have leaned heavily on prefabricated building sections to offset the shortage of skilled labor, hoist them into place with eight-to ten-story-high cranes. Cracked one delegation member: "Anyone who calls it the Iron Curtain is outdated. It's the Concrete Curtain. Brother, do they pour concrete...
...handle the distribution of products developed by our Springdale Laboratories, notably two new types of lithographic plates and the Electronic Scanner. Last month P.D.I. completed negotiations for building a new electroplating plant at Racine, Wis., to meet the demand from U.S. and Canadian lithographers for these hard-metal, offset plates, the "Lithure" and the "Lithengrave...
...Chicago where proofs of editorial and advertising matter are pulled on high-gloss enamel paper for each international edition. These pasted-up pages are then photographed, and a set of the so-called film positives is dispatched by air to each printing point overseas, where the local printer makes offset plates directly from the film...
...cannot afford the collection plate, reported Long Beach (Calif.) Sociologist George M. Logan after querying 30,000 elderly persons. "More than half reported attending church less frequently than they did ten years ago. Transportation difficulties and low income combined with social pressure for financial support of the churches have offset attendance...