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...believes that profits are also edging up, after plunging 98%, in the first quarter. Faced with the prospect of better business, the big companies are going ahead with capital expansion plans. Continental Transportation Lines expects to spend more than $400,000 on additions to garage and new equipment; Interstate Motor Freight plans to get three smaller shipping companies; Ryder System will spend $1,000,000 on new equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Boost for Trucking | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

When he had decided last spring term to stay on in Cambridge for the summer, rather than motor to Mexico with his mother, Vag did not realize the import of his choice. Now he was in the middle of a world he could not come to terms with--a world far distant from the sedate evenings spent with a cribbage board that sparked his proper life...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: A Man Is an Island | 7/10/1958 | See Source »

...sales in the second ten days of June posted a 6.8% increase in daily rate over the first ten days, and last week's production was up 9.6%. Ford Motor Co. returned to full-scale production, while Chrysler Corp. scored a 13% production boost in June. Yet even as the wheels rolled a bit faster, the industry got set for the annual model changeover shutdown. Buick production was stopped last week for approximately six weeks; Chrysler will start shutting down late this month, Plymouth in early August and Ford in September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Wait for Fall | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...Philosophy. Freudian man stems largely from the great Victorian period of machine genius: the psyche is a systematic motor, complicated but explicable in its deep and unconscious workings. The motor is controlled beyond the individual's power, largely by environment and sex, and can be tinkered with only with the help of that indispensable repairman, the analyst. Adler's starting point is evolution, as interpreted by philosophical Darwinians. Like Darwin, Adler saw man as an evolving species but like Samuel Butler and Nietzsche, he rated man's will far above man's environment and physical heredity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Man with a Will | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Pushbutton Camper. An experimental station wagon for campers, with a boat, tent, refrigerator, two-burner stove, sink with hot and cold running water, shower and curtain, was shown by Ford Motor Co. Power-operated equipment lifts the aluminum boat from its roof cradle and carries it overside for launching. Power gadgets also erect a tent with a full-size bed, move the kitchen onto the tailgate and thrust out a canopy to provide shade for the cook. Cost for experimental model: $40,000; if produced in quantity: below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jun. 23, 1958 | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

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