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...rush to buy sent manufacturers' sales in April smashing through their pre-recession peak, reported the Commerce Department last week. Sales reached $30.2 billion v. $29.1 billion in March, and new orders also set a record by climbing $800 million above March. For this reason-and other signs of heartiness in the economy-Commerce Department reported that the recovery is proceeding "at a better-than-seasonal pace and on a broadening scale." But it pointed out that the upward surge of the boom is still ahead: despite a 2% rise in industrial output above pre-recession highs, the rise...
...which was not designed as a truly intercontinental plane. Delivery of the new model will begin in July-and for the airlines it cannot come too soon. Jet travel has caught on so well that the jets are operating at 95% of capacity even before the peak tourist season...
...Like their counterparts in Boston, Philadelphia, Buffalo and St. Louis. Pay scales are still lower in the South, range higher in Cleveland, Los Angeles and Minneapolis-St. Paul, to a peak in San Francisco...
...often preached in filmy white celestial robes but occasionally acted out liturgical tableaux dressed as a policeman, fireman or fisherman. Her carelessness about money was sternly held in check by her mother-business manager, "Ma" Kennedy, an ex-Salvation Army lassie. One May afternoon in 1926, at the very peak of her career, Aimee went swimming in the Pacific off Santa Monica-and disappeared...
...there are signs that the housing tide has not reached its peak. The number of mortgage-insurance applications to the FHA is so great that the agency has had to revise its estimate for the current fiscal year from 962,500 to "well over one million" unit applications...