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...city. Simca auto sales jumped from 3,000 in 1954 to 14,500 in 1959, will hit 20,000 in 1960. Monoprix. France's largest five-and-ten store, expanded from two to nine stores. The number of stores selling radios, refrigerators, household equipment has increased fivefold. They do so well that bank deposits doubled in one year. "Who are the new millionaires in Algiers?" says one government official "Broadly speaking, just about anyone in a small business." Think Big. What started as a war and oil boom is gradually changing into something more permanent. Starting in 1958, under...
When Dowling took command. City Investing had assets of $11,000,000 and a net worth of $8,000,000. Today, the assets have multiplied fivefold, and the profits are better than $1,000,000 a year. City Investing owns five of Broadway's top theaters, and unlike their dilapidated Shubert neighbors, they are showplaces in themselves. Dowling does not lease his theaters; he operates them. "We knew the product." he says, "and we wanted to see it the best in the city-in decor, air conditioning, treatment of customers-so we had to become operators." A devoted theatergoer...
...transmitting business data, electronic brains to direct a nationwide telephone system. It still uses the Bell System's long distance lines to link its subsidiaries, but Don Power has rid the company of its inferiority complex. Since he took over, the company's total assets have increased fivefold, its sales and revenue twelvefold. This year General plans to spend a record $275 million in capital investment, will soon float new stock, its biggest financing ever, to raise the cash. Most pleasing of all, General's yearly growth rate is 6.5%-higher than massive Mother Bell...
...YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY has been in business five years, seen its output multiply fivefold. Its famed UNESCO series of outsize volumes in color now numbers 13. Graphic's list includes such eye-bugging revelations of out-of-the-way art as Ravenna Mosaics. Outstanding this season: Etruscan...
...over the job of closing the wound to an assistant. This man was, as Dr. Kundsin told the American College of Surgeons last week, "a loquacious type." Though he wore the conventional double-thickness, sterilized gauze mask, he breathed heavily through it. The bacteria count in the air increased fivefold. After the operation, Dr. Kundsin took smears from the young resident's nose and throat. The cultures proved him to be a fertile carrier of Staphylococcus aureus-and some strains of staph are the deadliest bacteria now plaguing hospitals in the U.S. and all other countries where modern, miracle...