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Back Pay. In Mount Vernon, Wash., James Ferguson rescued a woman from her overturned car, strained himself, sued her for damages...
...machinery industry, which started earlier on its recession and now seems to be coming out of it. With an end to the Midwest drought, and higher farm prices (see Agriculture), farmers were buying so much farm machinery that some companies are hard-pressed to keep up with demand. Massey-Ferguson. Ltd. sold more new combines and tractors between Nov. 1 and March 1 than at any other time in the past five years. Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. is well ahead of 1957, while J. I. Case Co. has the biggest backlog in its history, recorded sales of $21.4 million...
Profit at 50%. In paper, the signs of a bottoming out were also starting to appear. St. Regis Paper's Chairman Roy K. Ferguson, while noting that net sales were down 8% to 10% so far this year, reported that customers were beginning to ask for immediate delivery, a sure sign that "inventory reductions are nearing the point where we should feel the impact of an upturn by not later than midyear." As for steel, which so far has borne much of the brunt of the recession. President Avery C. Adams, of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp...
...racial angle in New York's school problem from a first-rate Southern reporter. To cover the story in depth the United Press assigned able, Georgia-born Alfred G. Kuettner, the U.P.'s longtime Atlanta bureau chief. Promised the U.P.'s Executive Editor Harry Ferguson: "If there are any squawks, I'll be your lawyer...
Patchen backed by jazz is something else. The jazzmen, led by Allyn Ferguson (who wrote the note on the jacket and was considerate enough to quote himself at one point), seem competent enough, but the effect of the two working on each other destroys more than it gives. Words blot out the music, and, as they say, vice versa. Patchen claims to have thought up jazz and poetry, love and marriage. Kenneth Rexroth, across the street and down the hill, claims the same thing. They both would do well to forget the unhappy, er, nuptuals...