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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What made this runaway demand even more remarkable was the fact that 1950 production was 15% ahead of 1949's, even with Chrysler strikebound. This week the industry will turn out 1950's 2,000,000th vehicle, v. 1,667,000 at this time last year. General Motors, which turned out 870,167 cars and trucks in 1950-5. first quarter, v. 570,692 a year ago, was still so far behind demand last week that it put many of its plants on double-overtime Saturday shifts. Ford, which boosted production 45% in the first quarter...
...whom testified that they had been relieved of nothing but their money. Dr. George L.. Clark, head of the division of analytical chemistry at the University of Illinois, reported that the Magic Spikes he had tested contained no vrilium-whatever it might be-but merely ½,000th of a cent's worth of barium chloride, a cheap rat poison. Dr. Bernard Waldman, head of the nuclear physics laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, aimed a Geiger counter at six "radioactive" Magic Spikes in the courtroom. The judge and jurors heard no telltale...
...because he was fed up with U.S. income taxes, Benny became a citizen of El Salvador. Says Benny, whose fortune is estimated at $25 million: "Everything I have I got from El Salvador, and I intend to leave it all here." Last week he proudly noted that the 500,000th patient had been treated at Hospital Benjamin Bloom...
Among the low, brown hills of eastern Tennessee stands a factory whose total product for 1949 weighed less than 1/10,000th of an ounce. The weight of its average shipment is less than that of the graphite in a penciled signature; the container usually weighs a billion times more. Yet the products of this factory, the radioisotope plant at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have already revolutionized many branches of science...
Patched Pockets. When Levi Strauss & Co. celebrated its looth birthday last week in its San Francisco factory, it had turned out its 95,000,000th pair of Levis. It reserved a special tailor-made pair for California's Governor Earl Warren, who, as a father of six children, praised the low cost (about $3.50) and durability of Levis. Said he: "I'd probably have gone bankrupt without them." Editorialized the San Francisco Chronicle: "We are unable to think of any influence ... that has radiated outward from San Francisco ... to be compared with Levis...