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...will rise 36% in the appliance industry, another 34% in the office and household furniture, hospital equipment and toy industries. To meet the new demand, steelmen plan a 25% increase in their capacity by 1965, another 25% by 1975. Others are just as optimistic. Planemakers, who have the biggest backlog ($3.5 billion) of civilian plane orders in their history, feel that they are just getting started. "Of course I'm bullish," says Boeing President William McPherson Allen, moving his finger along an upward-slanted line on a chart. "The volume of airline traffic is bound to go up like...
...years ago, not a single U.S. shipyard had a new ship-construction contract; today 58 tankers and cargo ships are being built and 23 more are on order. The New York Shipbuilding Corp. has $70 million worth of 1956 orders for tankers. Newport News has a quarter-billion-dollar backlog of orders. Mississippi's Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., biggest in the Deep South, has enough contracts to keep it busy through most...
...place plane hits top speed of 600 m.p.h., slows to 90 m.p.h. for landings on carrier's deck. New order pushes Lockheed backlog...
...Away from It (Columbia). "Hollywood," the late Fred Allen once snarled, "is responsible for the termite theory of art. Out there they figure they can survive by gnawing on their own backlog." As a matter of fact, about 10% of current big-studio production, according to one educated guess, are new versions of old successes. The fashion in these remakes is to slap on plenty of Technicolor, sign up a couple of famous players, hire a band to play good and loud-and call it all "A Great New Musical...
...stations in the U.S.; within the past year all but two major studios (Paramount and Universal-International) have sold old films to TV. Last week 20th Century-Fox leased to National Telefilm Associates, which has tie-ins with some no stations throughout the U.S., a $30 million backlog of 390 feature films. If Oz had been presented locally in only a handful of cities across the nation, it would have clobbered such a top-rated TV show as CBS's $64,000 Question. For more than half the total TV audience (an estimated 119 million...