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...LUMBER PICKUP is finally on horizon in depressed Pacific Northwest. Prices last winter dipped close to modern lows, but recently have bounced up 5% to 10%, are approaching 1956 peaks. Major reason for the upturn: The cut in production, along with a rise in construction...
...consider trucking a good index of general business conditions, it was another cheering sign of improvement in the U.S. economy. Truckers haul about 20% of the nation's freight -and because most of their freight is finished products rather than raw materials, they are sensitive to a pickup in sales...
Canada's spring recovery has surpassed the brightest forecasts of the experts. In the best pickup since recession's onset, unemployment declined from 516,000 in April to 366,000 in May, when only 6.1% of the working force was jobless...
...mood of U.S. business last week was: "Wait for fall." Most businessmen felt that the slide was ended, but few looked for any immediate big pickup in the face of the usual summer shutdowns...
...pickup is still too new to be apparent to all toolmakers. For the first five months of this year, Detroit's Cross Co. (automated assembly equipment) was 3% to 5% ahead of 1957, and the pace continued during June. Cleveland's National Acme Co. (automatic machine and threading tools) said that June orders were 50% over...