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Wilson's latest cutbacks, putting U.S. military manpower at 22% under the 1953 Korean war peak, mostly reflected an increasingly painful Pentagon budget squeeze, in turn caused by the spiraling costs of missile research and development, of complex new electronic devices, of materials and labor generally. Early this spring, Defense spending flew embarrassingly out of hand, promised to exceed...
...Ralph J. Cordiner came news of first-half profits of $127.8 million, the highest of any half year in G.E.'s history, a sales gain of 8% to $2.1 billion. International Business Machines' President Thomas J. Watson Jr. announced quarterly earnings of $21.3 million for another alltime peak, and more than the company's total annual revenues 25 years ago. Du Pont, Douglas Aircraft Co., Revlon, Mack Trucks and Schering Corp. were all at new highs, while Kaiser Steel Corp., American Cyanamid Co. and Radio Corp. of America showed solid six-month sales and earnings gains over...
...Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), the world's biggest oil company, was close behind. Despite a drop in demand, Chairman Eugene Holman estimated second-quarter earnings at $188 million, somewhat below the first quarter but still enough to push the company's first-half net to an alltime peak of $425 million, some $33 million better than 1956. On a smaller scale, California's Superior Oil Co. did even better, with nine-month (ending May 31) profits of $15.7 million (equal to $37.20 per share), for a 412% jump over the previous year...
MEAT PRICES, which accounted for 20% of cost-of-living index boost since December, will stay high for another year. Livestock herds are low, will not reach another cyclical peak until...
...EMPLOYMENT hit 66.5 million last month, a new peak for June and just a shade below last summer's alltime record of 66.8 million...