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...addition to East Germany's assigned role as primary producer of chemicals in Communist Europe (TIME, Dec. 8), it has now been tapped as "coordinator" of all bloc chemical production, responsible for boosting the area's chemical output fivefold by 1965. An array of interlocking agreements with Czechoslovakia, Hungary and the other satellites assigns East Germany responsibility for large deliveries of diesel and electric motors, power-station equipment and motor vehicles in exchange for raw materials...
...year job as director of the state's Road Commission. Utah was lucky to get him. Armstrong lifted Utah from 48th to 34th among states in getting its share of federal highway work under way, increased the amount of contracts let by Utah almost fivefold. Of his new $17,000-a-year federal assignment, Armstrong says: "This is a job of coordination and cooperation on a gigantic scale. We won't have to resort to any Russian methods to get it done...
...bonuses, often up to 40% over base pay. One result is that the number of man-hours needed to produce a ton of steel has decreased from about 16 in 1941 to about twelve today. One reason this was possible: in that same period U.S. Steel boosted research outlays fivefold...
...sales ratio of sport shirts to regular-collar shirts was one to three; last year sport shirts outsold the regulars by 60%. In the same 15 years, sportcoat production has soared from an annual 700,000 to 8,000,000; output of slacks has grown fivefold, to 75 million pairs...
...left, and the men are mostly old. There are not enough able-bodied men to attract industry, and not enough industry to keep able-bodied men there. But dozens of dams and power stations are being built or planned (Scotland's prewar generating capacity has been increased fivefold), forests are being reseeded and replanted, abandoned farms reclaimed from the encroaching bracken. John Hobbs, a Canadian who made a fortune in whisky, has set out to woo the Highland crofter from his sheep and show him how to make more money with cattle, demonstrating with a 16,000-acre ranch...