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...high, lacy filigree, forgets what he started to say, drops the whole idea and piles into the middle again with furious drive. As for his wife and partner Darlene, she sounds as if she were singing in a closet through several folds of cheesecloth. In songs like Autumn in New York and You're Blasé, she launches into the lyrics exquisitely off pitch, gropes up and down the scale in bewildered search...
...Labor Day week is a traditional indicator of business activity for the rest of the year. Last week there were signs that an expected autumn upturn had begun...
...manufacturers, who added $250 million a month to inventories during the first half of 1957, piled on $300 million in July. While the sales-to-inventory ratio ($1 to $1.86) stood close to the same level as twelve months ago, the lofty stocks mean that a better-than-seasonal autumn pickup in demand will be necessary to call forth a high wave of new production...
...dealer orders are bigger than the production goals in several lines. Chrysler's cars are still selling well, and even General Motors, whose 1957 Buick and Oldsmobile models have fallen behind, expects no real trouble preparing for major model changeovers. G.M. is leading in a huge $25 million autumn bonus cleanup campaign by the industry that will help Detroit enter November with a normal inventory of 200,000 cars. As for 1958, say the automen, the 7,000,000 customers who made 1955 a record year should now be ready for what most of them seem to want-lower...
...took its ease while the experts debated the future. Is it suffering merely from a seasonal lack of energy, or from a torpor that will last beyond the dog days of summer? Said New York's Guaranty Trust Co.: "The widespread expectation of an upturn in business this autumn is in some measure the product of hope rather than of tangible signs of rising activity." Guaranty's reasons: "Consumer caution" and a lack of "buoyancy in business operations." The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago also reported "less than vigorous" showings in the economy, and Boston's First...