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British achievements in Germany have been overshadowed by their great failure: to get a Ruhr coal production anywhere near normal. Steel production is less than 20% of the prewar peak...
Most industries tended to maintain, if not raise, the dollar volume that had pushed first-half earnings to a peak. And most of the earnings were above last year's record heights. But some drops were shown by companies in such fields as food, textiles, retailing and electrical products. They were the first to feel a shift towards a buyers' market and consumers' balking at high prices. Thus, General Foods reported a third-quarter net of $4,463,255, or 5% less than in the same period last year...
...first three months of 1947 were at an annual rate of $17,500,000,000-some 10% more than in last year's booming fourth quarter. The rate declined in the second quarter, tut only to $16,500,000,000, still higher than any other year's peak...
...time, though, has Dartmouth hilarity reached the peak it attained...
More seersucker jackets came out of dark closest recesses yesterday as Cambridge continued to swelter through the warmest autumn week in local history. Boston weather bureau officials envisioned no relief for three or four days, although temperatures will probably not climb back to the record-breaking peak of 83 degrees on Saturday...