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Auto sales in mid-April were 14% greater than a year ago, and Detroit's six-millionth car of the model year rolled off the production line three weeks ahead of the 1964 pace. Orders for machine tools hit a nine-month peak in March. U.S. industry is spending considerably more this year on plant expansion and new equipment than originally estimated; at the present rate, 1965 capital spending is expected to soar 15%, to more than $51 billion...
...other big aluminum makers, Alcoa needs new customers. Confronted since 1957 by industry overexpansion, sagging prices for ingots and cutthroat competition in the less profitable fabricating field, it has lost part of its share of the market to new companies, has also been through a profit wringer. From a peak of $89.6 million in 1956, Alcoa's net income slid to $40 million in 1960. It has not yet fully recovered, though last year's earnings of $60.8 million (on a record $1 billion in sales) were the best since 1957, and first-quarter sales and profits this...
...been a stormy petrel in the labor movement for years. At 25, he organized the United Electrical Workers Union. In 1949, after he had trouble with infiltrating Communists, he broke off from the U.E., founded the I.U.E. under the auspices of the C.I.O. He brought it to a peak membership of 397,000 in 1956. Then, owing mostly to Carey's dictatorial methods, it began to lose members...
...embassy in Saigon (see THE NATION) were in sharp contrast to a curious silence on the ground in South Viet Nam. For nearly a month the Viet Cong "main force" has been lying low, refusing to tangle with the South Vietnamese army. Communist-provoked incidents have dropped from a peak of 1,020 a week during December (long before U.S. air strikes began) to 400 a week last month. In the critical Mekong Delta, South Viet Nam's prized and hotly-contested "rice bowl," night attacks by the Viet Cong slumped to the lowest level in years...
...runway, weighing 500,000 Ibs., the heaviest at which an aircraft has ever flown. During the 1-hr. 40-min. test, the plane set a new record for continuous supersonic flight: 74 min., at speeds ranging from Mach 1.4 (920 m.p.h.) to Mach 2.1 (1,425-m.p.h.) at a peak altitude...