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ALUMINUM PRICES will probably jump 4% (to 26? a Ib. for pig aluminum) despite decreased demand. Industry blames spiraling costs, including an automatic 7% wage boost on Aug...
...bales overseas this year, more than twice 1956 exports. Last week Agriculture officials totaled up the figures and announced that the program had succeeded far beyond Secretary Benson's prediction. At a cost of $442 million in subsidies, the U.S. will have exported 7,500,000 bales by Aug. 1, the highest since 1933. But before anyone could cheer, the Agriculture Department also warned that the export program may prove more of a headache than a help...
...Have Done I Did Not Do, the portrait of a moldy door, and the flotsam-and-jetsam-cluttered watercolor, Ah God-Herrings, Buoys, the Glittering Sea, Mary Block put her best face forward and hoped. Albright put aside (temporarily) his work in progress of the past twelve years (TIME, Aug. 9, 1954), the still-unfinished, cosmically titled Poor Room-There Is No Time, No. End, No Today, No Yesterday, No Tomorrow, Only the Forever, and Forever, and Forever, Without End, and went to work...
...last year's records, Lukens with a 16.2% jump to profits of $2,613,666 for the second quarter. Safeway Stores, Inc. reported a second-quarter profit of $7,390,260, some 33% better -than 1956, while Macy (R.H.) & Co., Inc. predicted sales for its fiscal year ending Aug. 3 at just under $450 million, with profits of at least $6,800,000, up $452,000 from last year...
EDSEL, first of the 1958 models (to be introduced on Aug. 27) and a car that cost Ford $250 million to get ready for production, is no radical car of the future. Yet it has enough new gadgets to intrigue most motorists, e.g., an elaborate dashboard whose speedometer glows red when the car reaches a preset speed, an automatic transmission with buttons in the center of the steering wheel. The engine will be a V-8 with a horsepower rating around...