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Executives will also divert much of the fresh cash to expand and improve their plants. McGraw-Hill's annual survey of capital spending plans, out this week, predicts that businessmen's capital budgets in 1964 will jump 6% to $42 billion. Other economists foresee increases in capital spending up to 8%-which would help to keep the expansion going...
National Food pays off nearly 700 winners a week and collects a bonus in increased grocery sales. But it will not hold the jump on its competitors for long. Already the rival Red Owl chain has started a TV bingo contest with prizes of trading stamps held out to thousands at home with Red Owl cards. In cities all over, stores are staging such games as "Hidden Treasure," "Split the Dollar," "Hit 100," with a payoff in money, appliances and stamps for those who eagerly collect them...
Leading the gain will be Italy (5.5%) and France (4.5%); lagging will be West Germany (3%) and the Benelux countries (3.5%). Eurocrats blamed last winter's brutal weather for a slowdown early in the year but forecast a 6% jump in industrial production during 1963's fourth quarter...
Glimp predicted that as many as 60 per cent of the candidate group would ask for financial aid, a jump of 10 per cent from last year. The previous high for scholarship applications was in 1961-62, when 57 per cent of the applicants sought...
...stated that the College intends to cover all rent increases incurred by scholarship students, but said the main concern was for students whose rents will jump significantly under the new rate. Scholarship increases will meet all rent hikes of over $50, Glimp said. In cases where the increase is small--$10 to $20--increases in scholarship aid may not be forthcoming...