Word: pers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peeled off as cadres for other divisions. Of the total planned strength of 200,000 men, the army today has only 123,000. Of the 2,500 pilots the new Luftwaffe will need, only 650 are trained, and new pilots are qualifying at the rate of only ten per month. (To step up the process, 300 German pilots are being trained in the U.S. and 200 in Canada.) The navy is making do with one destroyer and 130-odd minesweepers, patrol boats and submarines...
...readily adaptable to high-speed rotary presses-an asset not lost on Asahi Shimbun, the Tokyo daily of 4,000,000 circulation, which also publishes Asahi Science Magazine. The three Tokyo printing companies already equipped to print recording on paper expect mass production to reduce the present 4½?-per-page cost to 2? or less. Main drawback: the stay-at-home subscriber must pay $417 for equipment that will buy him the dubious privilege of hearing his magazine or newspaper roar like a waterfall or merely go bongbong...
Channel III, a Geiger tube, records higher rates of radiation, is designed to take over when Channel I is swamped. Here its square-topped waves are indicating about 4,000 counts per second, enough to kill a man exposed to them in a matter of days...
Chrysler's President L. L. Colbert told stockholders that first-quarter earnings exceeded the $1.30 per share reported in the company's best and final quarter last year. Chrysler's retail sales from April 10 to April 20 were the highest in the past 17 months. Colbert said "considerable improvement" in earnings can be expected in the second quarter, when Chrysler plans to boost production to 300,000 cars and trucks, 40% above the first quarter...
American Motors earned $2.10 for its second fiscal quarter, boosting first-half earnings to $5.66 per share v. $1.25 during the same period last year. For the first time since 1954, American returned to a quarterly cash dividend program, declared a 60? payment. With the peak sales season coming up, President George Romney said he "anticipates an even higher level" of production, sales and earnings...