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...chemical rocket's exhaust, is the secret of the plasma engine's promise. All space engines must shoot something astern to gain their thrust, and as the exhaust speed rises, the engine becomes more efficient. Republic's plasma engine can run for a year on 1 Ib. of nitrogen...
...that producers were delivering promptly because they still had plenty of unused plant. Excess capacity and intense competition served also as an inflationary brake, as was demonstrated last week when Aluminum Co. of America felt obliged to cut its basic ingot prices from 26? to 24? per Ib. With so much overcapacity, manufacturers as yet felt no compulsion to expand vigorously, consequently were borrowing at a slower rate than bankers had hoped they would...
...Ib. weakling? When ROBERT E. FULTON III '62 first wanted to come out for the CRIMSON, he was. His biggest problem was lifting his 3 lb. camera to eye level for 1/30 of a second, the minimum exposure in his dimly-lit room, in order to take his roommate pictures (which he had to shoot of himself since he lived in a single...
Manufacturers who use the bean were grumbling about the higher prices, now 13% above the November level. Procter & Gamble, followed by a host of other companies, raised wholesale prices of bulk shortening by 1? per Ib. Kraft Foods warned that it might have to increase the price on a pound of margarine by a penny or so when its present supply of soybean oil is exhausted. Poultry and cattle feed producers also expected to have to raise prices to offset the increased cost of the soybean. There is little prospect of early relief for the processors. The price of soybeans...
Surplus Ahead? While U.S. growers hide comfortably behind quotas and price supports, the world market, where prices have remained fairly stable at 3? a Ib. since the U.S. cut off Cuban sugar, is threatened by a large surplus. Good growing weather has pushed estimated world production up 8% to a record 59.8 million tons, outpacing expected demand by 3.4 million tons. Cuba and Russia alone, the two largest sugar producers, may have 6.000,000 tons between them for export. If they dump it on the market, it could send world prices skidding...