Word: charts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crept up 1.6% in the past year, while the gross national product has shot up much more. In the second quarter of 1960, according to new figures last week, the U.S. economy produced goods and services at an annual rate of $505 billion, well above a year ago (see chart...
...Kingston Trio's Sold Out was anything but. With fond backward glances at Billboard's bestseller chart, where Sold Out last week led all the rest, Capitol Records was keeping all music shops well supplied with the hottest album cut so far by the hottest group in U.S. popular music...
...summer, average out to more than 70% of capacity for the year. Says he: "1960 will be one of the industry's best production years, with a bare possibility of topping the 1955 record ingot output of 117 million tons." Retail sales are still above last year (see chart), and Sears Roebuck Chairman Charles Kellstadt expects his company's 1960 sales to increase 5% over 1959 sales of about $4 billion. The auto industry has a million-car inventory on its hands, only 16% in the fast-selling compacts. Dealers may be worried about selling them, but Detroit...
...billion in the second half. Congress also added $661 million to the defense budget last week. Another cheering sign is the continuing increase in productivity. Last week the Labor Department reported that the output of goods and services per man-hour last year rose about 4.4% above 1958 (see chart...
Bulldozers & Buses. Making liberal use of the big workshops at his disposal, Polich invented dozens of classroom de vices to illustrate the latest engineering and electrical developments for 32 courses. Instead of the standard black board sketches and one-dimensional charts, he mounted cutaway engines on huge boards, indicated power flow by beads, lights and liquids. A model of the fuel-injection system for diesel engines spouts real flames; the school also has a huge cutaway bulldozer that actually works with most of the moving parts exposed to view. "A chart of a missile system in static form would send...