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...campaign hard, and he did win big, by a near-record 402,000 votes over a nice Republican lady. That consolidated his position as a Democratic hopeful...
...near-record turn-out, nearly 80 per cent of the eigible voters in California cast their votes in the off-year election. Rose said the vote "was not an all-time high"; but that it "compares with the vote of 1950, and some of the New Deal record turnouts...
Other rates are still at near-record levels...
...Chicago stockyards last week Iowa Cattle Feeder Joe Dingman sold a twelve-ton load of 20 prime-fed Aberdeen Angus steers for $9,492.60. The price was a near-record 39? per lb., highest since 1952 and far more than the 27? per lb. that prime beef brought a year ago. Other beef prices climbed as much as 1½? per lb. last week, and the average-grade steer brought about 28? v. 21.7 the same week in 1957. This was good news for beef raisers, glum news for beefeaters. Each 1½ boost will bring almost a 2? rise...
...leads in total business, with 1957 sales of $104 million (66% military), Cessna is the world's biggest private-plane builder, 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...