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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every indication pointed to a banner auto year that may approach 1955's record of 7,920,000 sales. Though sales in September slumped more than seasonally, chiefly because of the extra hoopla over the 1960 cars, they were still up 36% over 1958. The auto industry at midweek...
MOONSHINE WHISKY sales last year rose to record $1 billion, and 55,000,000 gal. moonshine production accounted for between 20% and 25% of all liquor consumed in U.S. Government's losses: $750 million.
The U.S. Treasury wanted to raise only $2 billion on its new 5% note, aimed to attract the little investor. But the demand was so great that $11 billion in orders poured in last week. "There was such a crowd on the floor," said the vice president of a New...
All told, 108,000 individuals and organizations bought nearly half of the $2 billion issue. Only 26.6% went to commercial banks; thus Treasury officials were highly pleased that most of the issue was kept out of the commercial banking system, which pays for Government securities with newly created dollars. The...
JOHN ANDREW BARR, 51, handsome Hoosier, is the best proof in U.S. business that ugly ducklings do indeed turn into swans. As a vice president, secretary and legal counsel for Montgomery Ward & Co. under depression-minded, penny-pinching Chairman Sewell Avery, Barr was as undistinguished as a duckling; his chief...