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...major achievements of the Eisenhower Administration: a budget offering a small surplus (est. $70 million) for the fiscal year that begins next July 1. But almost overlooked in the light of that achievement was another fact: the fiscal 1960 budget, despite its balance, is also the largest in U.S. peacetime history...
...Bank of America became the world's largest private bank by developing special services for almost every need. This week it added three more...
...Vallecitos, G.E. built the nation's first privately owned and operated power reactor next to its new test reactor, which is used for testing fuel and materials for future power reactors. It is building the largest U.S. all-nuclear power station (cost: more than $45 million) at Dresden, Ohio for Commonwealth Edison of Chicago, and a $19.5 million reactor at Eureka, Calif, for Pacific Gas & Electric Co., has been selected to construct nuclear power stations in Switzerland, West Germany and Italy...
...Knolls Laboratories near Schenectady, N.Y., G.E. is designing a twin-reactor, pressurized-water system for the world's largest submarine, the U.S.S. Triton. It is building a reactor system for the Navy's first nuclear destroyer, studying a boiling-water reactor for use in a merchant ship...
...stock market last week. When the closing gong ended trading on Dec. 31. the Dow-Jones industrial average stood at an alltime record of 583.65. The year's gain in dollar value of the more than 5 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange was the largest in the Big Board's 166-year history, rising to about $275 billion from $196 billion at the end of 1957. Stock Exchange transactions totaled 747,058,306, the largest volume since 810,632,546 shares were traded in 1930. On the first day of trading in 1959 investors...