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...hard hit by the slow cleanup sale of its 1953 cars, laid off some 9,200 workers. Nash has already announced an eight-day shutdown to help dealers trim inventories; Studebaker is shut down until early next month; Hudson and Packard cut their work forces. Still unaffected are General Motors and Ford Motor Co., both of which are planning higher output of their cars in the first quarter of 1954 than in the same period of 1953. The Ford-Chevrolet race for supremacy appeared to be starting its second lap, and Buick, planning a 10% increase, was gunning for Plymouth...
Artie's clients from time to time have included some of California's beer, liquor, cigarette, motor bus, trucking and railroad companies; some race tracks, banks and mortgage firms. Samish was once credited with "owning" 30 of the state's 80 legislators, with electing a California attorney general and a mayor of San Francisco, and with dictating the selection of several state assembly speakers and the entire membership of the two legislative committees which concern him most. His efforts seem to have paid off: California has no state cigarette tax and no other state has a lower...
...graduates of technical schools who specialize in "autocontrols, propulsion fuels, reactor, sold state, and irradiation physics, and reactor engineering." The process of specialization has penetrated this industry so much that two men may work on similar problems, one on rocket fuel and the other on design of the rocket motor, and never come in contact with each other. The industry-wide proportion of the various specialties is 30 per cen mechanical, 22 per cent electrical, 21 per cent aeronautical, 8 per cent civil, and the rest scattered specialties...
Great Highway. More significantly for Venezuela's economy, Pérez Jiménez snipped a silk ribbon to open the spectacular new motor speedway running from mountain-girdled Caracas to the sea. The journey to the capital from its seaport, La Guaira, and the neighboring airport Maiquetia, has traditionally been a fatiguing, sometimes hair-raising ride over an insane 18½-mile highway with 311 curves. The $60 million, four-lane autopista is Venezuela's most daring piece of engineering. It sweeps up to the capital in 10½ miles, tunneling mountains and leaping deep chasms...
...Ford Motor Co. showed off its 1954 Mercury this week and gave the rest of the medium-priced field something to shoot at: a sleek new hardtop model named the Sun Valley. The top over the front seat is made of clear plastic, tinted to lessen the sun's glare; the back half is steel. Mercury first tried out its new top on a pair of experimental cars, found that the public liked it well enough for mass production. Factory list price on the Sun Valley (with such standard accessories as heater, radio, directional signals...