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...Gray says that he will look for "what we can find within United Aircraft's capabilities that would be applicable to a peacetime economy." One possibility may be greater emphasis on kerosene-fueled generators to help electric utilities meet peak-hour demands for power. Another: newer turbine engines for fast, interurban trains. United Aircraft's main problem is that it is basically a one-product company. Gray, a man of many parts, will probably diversify United so that it depends less on plane engines and more on a range of products...
...latest official survey shows that the U.S. spends about 6.9% of its gross national product on plant and equipment; by contrast, Germany spends more than 11%, Norway 15.2% and Japan 29%. Partly because of liberal tax incentives, much of the industrial equipment in foreign countries is newer than in the U.S. For example, most of Japan's plant and equipment is no more than six years old. In the U.S., 20% of the industrial complex is more than 20 years old and much of the rest of it is more than ten years...
...POLLUTION has generally increased since 1969. However, emissions from autos, a major source of air pollution, "have apparently reached the peak level," and may now be on the decline as older cars are replaced by newer ones with antipollution devices. There has also been a slight drop in solid-waste emissions into the air, probably because there is less open burning in municipal dumps...
Many teaching nuns by now have changed either to "regular" dress or to modified forms of their religious habit, and many Catholic schools have broken through traditional classroom methods to the newer forms of education...
...Actually a newer version of mobile lounges that have operated since 1962 at Washington's Dulles International Airport...