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...shots are stockpiled, with little demand during the season of low incidence when the public tends to forget polio. And unused vaccine must be destroyed after six months. Doctors' reminder: anyone beginning a three-shot vaccination series now can finish it before the polio season's summer peak in most...
Scores of companies set new sales and profit records, and so many others came close to old records that 1957 easily topped the peaks of '56. The gross national product increased another 5% to an alltime high of $436 billion. Industrial production edged up to a record average for the year of 144; employment reached an alltime peak of 67.2 million before dropping at year's end; corporate assets swelled to $229 billion. Wages continued to rise. The average hourly pay rose from $2.05 in January to $2.10 near year's end. Despite worry over the squeeze...
...still be a gold-plated recession. At that time, gross national product dropped by $6.3 billion; industrial production dipped 15 points on the FRB's index, more than most economists foresee for 1958; unemployment then rose to 5% of the labor force, not the 4.5% estimated as the peak for 1958. Moreover, total employment (which tumbled 975,000 in 1954) is expected to rise by the end of '58 above the total at the end of '57. Economists look to the changing nature of the U.S. economy to push the employment totals higher-and also cut back...
...Hollywood really through? This year, average weekly movie attendance is down to 44.2 million from a peak postwar average of 82.4 million, according to Sindlinger & Co. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., which will pay stockholders a respectable dividend (25? a share) this quarter and has declared a 25?extra dividend, this month fired some 400 of its 1,300 permanent employees, announced that it was "taking time out for a reappraisal," meantime would live off its 32 unreleased films...
...Some 2,000 new titles are on the shelves, and sales are expected to top last year's record-breaking $80 million. Many a children's book, even in the higher price range, dwarfs the sales of adult bestsellers. Where an adult novel usually achieves its peak sales within six months of publication and then drops off to virtually nothing, the successful children's book-e.g., Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden (1909), Marjorie Flack's China-flavored The Story About Ping (1933), E. B. White's gentle Charlotte...