Word: inces
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Ship propellers, churning out their wakes with magnificent forcefulness. look pretty efficient. But John H. MacMillan Jr., president of Cargill, Inc. of Minneapolis, suspected them of churning a little too turbulently. Since Cargill is a grain firm, deeply involved in water transportation, MacMillan decided to save his company some money by improving its ships' propellers. Last week he described a system that he believes gets more propulsive effect out of a ship's engine...
...from 8.5% to 29%. ¶Eastman Kodak Co., with gains in nearly all major photographic lines, reported record sales and profits for 1957's first quarter. Sales were up 5.4% to $163 million, while earnings rose 4% higher than in 1956 to $17.7 million. ¶ Federated Department Stores, Inc. announced a new record for the fiscal year ended Feb. 2. Sales jumped $63.7 million to an alltime high of $601 million; profits increased $1,446,782 to $23.5 million, ¶American Motors Corp., while still losing money, managed to cut its net loss by 30% during the first...
...flattest notes came from the TV industry, which has been battling tougher competition and slower consumer sales. Admiral Corp.'s first-quarter sales dipped 13% to $42.4 million, while profits declined 67% to $427,744. Philco Corp. and Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. managed to increase their sales slightly, but saw profits drop, Philco's by 27% to $1,107,000 for 1957's first quarter, Sylvania...
Shot back new Chamber President Philip M. Talbott, senior vice president of Woodward & Lothrop, Inc., a Washington, D.C. department store: Wilson's "pains do not refute our findings. Our members are not all rich. Many of them are having a difficult time making any profits at all in the face of high taxes...
...Bucks County, Pa. ¶Republic Steel Corp. and National Lead Co. have formed a joint corporation to promote adoption of their R-N rotary-kiln process developed in Birmingham. Unlike the other processes, this one employs a solid carbon fuel instead of a reducing gas. ¶Arthur D. Little, Inc. (TIME, April 1) is developing its own process, using patents from the Esso Research & Engineering Co. It was petroleum scientists who first learned how to extract hydrogen cheaply from natural gas or petroleum, and also how to use gas pressures from below to smelt ore. This "fluidized bed" method...