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With supply more in line with demand, Detroit automakers showed their confi dence by upping production to a rate of 440,000 units in July, the second month of the year (besides March) when auto pro duction gained over the previous month...
...labor, would be hurt by tariff reduction, the committee decided. Only three of the smallest of these would suffer serious damage. Some of the state's leather glove and belt manufacturers would be hard hit by foreign competition, and imports of cheap foreign china could cripple the pro duction of pottery, one of the principal industries of Red Wing...
...from a ship or an airplane, the islands of the West Indies look like the approaches to paradise. Ashore, the tourist quickly learns that many of the most intelligent natives spend a lot of time figuring out ways and means to escape from their Eden. The best fictional intro duction in years to their state of mind was Barbadian George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin (TiME, Nov. 9, 1953), a poetic memoir of island youth that plotted the colored man's course from careless innocence to gnawing discontent. In The Emigrants, a boatload...
...fleetingly, by the job they have undertaken. One thing they are sure of is that at first only very rich offshore oil fields can be exploited at a profit. Pools containing only 10 million barrels, though profitable on land, cannot support all the costly services demanded by offshore pro duction. When the big fields have been fully developed, the little fields can live off them, like small villages and farms between major shopping centers...
...carried it off to his collection of stuffed pumas and condors-a coup of science roughly comparable to a band of West Point cadets kidnaping the Navy goat on the eve of the service academies' annual football game. As soon as the students heard of the ab duction, they called in the press to claim credit for a find that "may change our knowledge of the history of the Incas in Chile." When skeptical newsmen demanded to see the "mummy," the students led a caravan of cars crosstown to the Museum of Natural History...