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...letter of the new law, Indian officials last week wrestled with the problem of communicating in Hindi. In some areas they wrote most of their correspondence in English - retained as an "associate language" - but inserted verbs in Hindi. In Uttar Pradesh, a Hindi state, government offices faced a correspondence backlog for lack of enough typewriters equipped with the cumbersome 36-character Hindi alphabet...
...each other's needs. For Boeing, which paid $2,000,000 in cash and $1,000,000 in long-term credits, the deal pries open a position in the growing European aerospace market -now dominated by the French-at a time when the company faces a shrinking backlog of U.S. defense work. For Bölkow, rich in brains but shy of capital, it not only provides cash but leads to easier financing in a field that devours development funds in multimillion-dollar gulps...
...operations, is far more efficient than the usual method of calculating only 30 different costs. Thanks to its imaginative methods on the line and in the office, Avondale has won 15 of the 39 major ship contracts awarded in the U.S.'s current rebuilding program, has doubled its backlog to $250 million...
...Central America were snapped up for $5,000 last year by Alvin I. Malnik, 31, a Miami Beach attorney, who will soon start distributing machines manufactured in Chicago. He already has installed them in New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas and dozens of military bases, and has a backlog of 2,500 orders. If Malnik has his way, every public place from the hoitiest cocktail lounge to the toitiest pizza parlor will be swinging to musies, all of which are eventually to be produced by Malnik himself. Meanwhile, Scopitone screens are filled by French films. One typical Gallic offering...
...have balanced the debt increase with a rise in personal savings, from a customary 7% of disposable income to 8.2% in this year's second quarter. Economists consider this a temporary plateau that will hold until consumers adjust to higher incomes, feel that higher savings could be a backlog of buying power to be used as 1964 goes...