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...with commercial sales of 2,489 planes worth $33 million (total sales: $70 million). First-quarter fiscal 1958 sales: a peacetime-record $20.7 million for Cessna, a near-record $20.8 million for Beech. Just below Beech and Cessna stands the third member of the Big Three: Piper Aircraft of Lock Haven, Pa., which concentrates on low-priced planes and whose ubiquitous Cub is known the world over. Piper's sales: a record $26.6 million in 1957, but down slightly in igsS's first quarter...
...When I get into the gate, it's instinct mainly. I hold both reins in one hand, crossed in my palm. I twist a forefinger around a lock of the horse's mane. I never have a tight rein because the horse would rear up. He has to have a free head, but you have to have that pull on your finger. You have to sense when the gate is going to spring. When I leave the gate, sometimes I take my finger off the horse right away, sometimes not. You keep the horse loose. Then, out of the gate...
...cars, OIdsmobile boasted of a dashboard transistor radio that could be taken out and used as a portable. Last week Oldsmobile sadly admitted that it was too portable. Across the U.S. the radios were being stolen at a fast clip as owners forgot to lock them in. Olds promptly devised a tougher dashboard lock and anti-jimmying device, which it will install on its cars from...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Jan. 21--Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold declared today the U.N. will remain the main arena for breaking the East-West dead-lock on disarmament...
...circ. 718,007) paid more than cursory attention to the sale, the answers seemed clear enough. Hard-headed Contractor McCloskey, who had pumped some $5,000,000 into the News in his three years of ownership, was unable to resist Annenberg's offer to buy the rising paper, lock, stock and debt. Said McCloskey: "It was an expensive luxury...