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...Board reported that department store sales for the previous week were running 3% above the 1957 level. Adding to recent gains in manufacturing employment and hours, the Big Three automakers announced plans to recall 182,000 workers to work on the 1959 models. And though the rate of inventory cutback continued in June at a much slower rate, the nation's retailers actually increased their inventories-the first increase by any sector of business...
Russian economic offers often prove less attractive than they first seem; most countries have to accept barter instead of hard cash, often find Russian goods shoddy, Soviet maintenance poor. But so long as the threat of a congressional cutback in U.S. aid and trade programs and increasing pressure for more U.S. tariffs on basic commodities exist, the attractions of the Soviet lure are apt to become even stronger. U.S. business will not only lose some of its present markets, but, far more important, will be kept out of the markets of the future...
...three hours of a long conference, he becomes visibly weary; at the end of a day his performance is admittedly below par. His staff realizes this and works mightily to pick up the load. The President realizes it, too, and has made allowances such as the deliberate cutback in his work load...
...costs of maintenance and operation," White observed, "have moved upward at an alarming rate in recent years." Unless the necessary funds are received, White said, the Library would have to make a "drastic cutback" in its present facilities...
...Afterwards Weisl disclosed that he had been in touch with Convair that morning and been told that the Pentagon had not yet directed the firm to speed up the Atlas program.) Later on in his testimony Douglas proved to be unaware that the Air Force recently ordered a 50% cutback in production of its 5.000-mile subsonic Snark guided missile...