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Despite the leveling off, U.S. businessmen will keep building for future markets without letup. Merely to keep pace, industry will lay out a record sum for new plants and equipment in 1956. The forecast: $33 billion, $5 billion more than in 1955. Example: the Southern Co., which controls utility companies in four Southeastern states, will pour $220 million into 88 new power projects...
Gift From the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, outsold every other book of the year by a good margin, and at the 400,000 mark there was still no sign of a letup. The multiplicity and fragmentation of modern daily life were too much for Author Lindbergh, and her well-written cry of "Enough, enough!" obviously found a vast chorus of agreement...
Since the war, one of the greatest building booms in history has changed the face of Latin America, and no letup is in sight. To house a population that is growing at double the world rate, the countries south of the border have built thousands of large-scale apartment projects, office buildings, stadiums, university halls and government buildings. In the major cities, new, skyscrapered skylines rise amidst one-and two-century-old slum clusters and rows of two-story stores. To portray a decade of tumultuous growth, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is currently displaying a photographic exhibit (assembled...
Despite the credit brakes, a new construction record is already in prospect for 1955. F. W. Dodge's midyear construction review reported a 30% increase in all classes of building contracts to a total of nearly $12 billion during the first six months, with no sign of a letup in sight...
...grain output in 1957 will be lowered by 12%. Instead of driving one-half of China's peasants into collective farms in the next 2½ years. Peking will be content to drive only one-third of them. But let no one imagine that this means any letup in the drive to collectivization, said Li Fu-chun. "China's small peasant economy" must be abolished and replaced with "collective farming...