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¶ A balanced budget of $2.4 billion. The legislature raised Brown's recommended 5% salary increase for 115,000 state employees to 6%, but the Governor (who has an item veto on figures) knocked it back down to size by clipping $4,910,000 from the appropriation.
No indicator is watched more closely by U.S. businessmen at this time of year than the sales figures of the automobile industry. What they are looking for is a sign of spring kicking up its heels. Last week dealer showrooms were full of prospects with the open-road look in...
Housewives are conditioned to clipping coupons with such fatuous replies as "Dear Golden Atlas Co.: Yes, I would be thrilled to improve my mind with your new atlas." Last week suburban housewives around New York City were amused by an imaginative spoof of the coupon-clipping craze spread over full...
Tremendous Confusion. Broad-shouldered, hoarse-voiced Frank Freimann, 53, has kept once slow-moving Magnavox clipping along at a fast pace. He will shortly introduce a new electronic organ for the home (price: $700 to $1,500). In stereo, he pushed Magnavox ahead of the field by switching over its...
"I don't want to sound like a Pollyanna," said a steelman last week, "but so far, everything is going better than we dreamed it could." With its 500,000-man labor force back on the job, the nation's steel industry was making an amazing comeback. Barely...