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...movement.* Supporting his decision, the President noted that imports of Swiss movements, up 4,000,000 units last year over the 1946-50 annual average of 8,300,000, are doing "serious injury" to American makers, whose production costs are nearly twice as high, and who are being outsold in the U.S. nearly 4 to 1. The President cited an interdepartmental Government committee report that stressed the necessity for maintaining a nucleus of at least 4,000 skilled U.S. watchmakers available to produce civilian and military timing devices in event of war. With American production dropping, workers were turning away...
...main trends of the year, non-fiction outsold fiction, children's books had a boom (notwithstanding their dully predictable tendency to preach good behavior in barnyard parables), and a lot of good reading continued to turn up more or less unheralded. Finally, for the second year in a row, the Revised Standard Version of the Bible sold more than 1,000,000 copies, to lead all other current books...
Within a year, the new boss had boosted sales to the point where the store was crowding its old quarters; Bingham added on buildings to double its floor space. Sales kept right on rising, until the San Francisco store pushed from sixth place to second, outsold only by The Emporium, which has twice as much floor space...
...from the Springfield (Mo.) Business College and a position with a Missouri road construction company. In 1931 he Became sales manager of the tractor division, and ten years later its general manager. The division developed such products as the first tractor with rubber tires, an all-crop harvester that outsold every other combine, a huge 20-ton crawler tractor, and during World War II made high-speed crawler prime movers for the Army. Since the end of the war, the tractor division's sales have been five times the best prewar years. The division now does...
...slouch among debutantes of the '20s-they were faithful to their hero, the clear-eyed Hopalong. Black Hopalong Cassidy shirts and Hopalong Cassidy pants were simple necessities; the more fashionable put on Hopalong Cassidy pajamas to sleep in a Hopalong Cassidy bed, had Hopalong Cassidy wallpaper (which outsold every design in the U.S. this year), ate Hopalong Cassidy cookies and peanut butter and rode a Hopalong Cassidy bicycle (which has handle bars shaped like steer horns...