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...people of the U.S. went about their normal summer pursuits-the kind that make no headlines-with more affluence and enthusiasm than ever be fore. The World's Fair clocked its 18 millionth visitor, and baseball's National League registered nearly three-quarters of a million more customers than in 1963. In California twice as many U.S. families were traveling to the Orient as two years ago. Riding a wave of unprecedented prosperity, Americans were buying more of everything-sailboats and sports cars, wigs and swimming pools (see U.S. BUSINESS...
...Japanese automaker sneers that it is "in the toy business." Some toy. Hiroshima's thriving Toyo Kogyo Co. Ltd. outproduced all other Japanese automakers last year and had the industry's fattest profit margin on sales of $231,500,000. This month it turned out its millionth vehicle...
...decisions: to make nothing but electronic measuring instruments, and to insist on rigid standards of quality. At Hewlett-Packard, specialization is only relative. The company's catalogue lists more than 900 devices designed for such esoteric tasks as timing electrical impulses that last only one-thousandth of a millionth of a second. The surge in the company's 1962 sales was not because any single product was a bestseller, but because H.-P.'s fertile research department turned out so many new products to sell. Rangy (6 ft. 5 in.) Dave Packard and compact...
...seat is the presence of its largest employer, the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. This week State Farm will report that its premium income for the first half of this year was up nearly 11% to $281 million, and that in May the company signed up its seven millionth policyholder. All this handily helped State Farm hold its rank as the world's largest automobile insurance company...
Begun at Harvard's biological laboratories last September, Porter's current research uses a new $40,000 electron microscope. The shadow picture produced by introducing the cell specimen into a beam of electrons has a resolution of one fifty-millionth of an inch. Porter in 1945 made the first electron microscope photograph of a cell...