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Mystery Spinner Erie Stanley (The Case of the Glamorous Ghost) Gardner, 68, customarily dictates his thrillers at a rate of up to 10,000 words a day, often working on as many as seven at the same time. Last December the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, reviewing two of them, hinted that such mass production could come only from a factory, implied that A. A. Fair, Gardner's best-known pseudonym, was a real, live ghost. After Gardner's indignant publishers, William Morrow & Co., all but put Lawyer Perry Mason on the case, the newspaper this week politely allowed...
...scientists. Even if no more weapons are tested, there may be enough strontium 90 in "the stratospheric reservoir" to raise the strontium 90 in the bones of children in the Northeastern U.S. to as much as 4.3% of the MPC. If weapons testing continues at the same rate as the last few years, the average for the entire population of the Northeastern U.S. will gradually climb to about 20% of the MPC by the year...
...fact, is cautiously optimistic, feels that it has reached the bottom. Said Arthur B. Homer, president of Bethlehem Steel: "Sizing up all the factors, I've felt better about things in the last week. We see some signs already that may mean we will be at a better rate soon. When people regain confidence, when they decide the turn has come, we'll come back fast...
AEROSOL-DISPENSED FOODS will be selling at rate of 1 billion cans a year by 1965, says M.I.T.'s Dr. George Fuld, assistant professor of food engineering. Food was contained in but few of the more than 350 million aerosol-type containers sold last year, but food firms are working hard to spray dozens of products (.e.g., pancake mix, barbecue sauce, soda-mix flavoring), hope to surge forward when government approves pressure chemicals...
...salesmen (nine of whom got lighter sentences) how to go about it. Salesmen were instructed to get customers to sign blank contracts, later cut the trade-in allowance and raise the new car price they wrote in on the contract. They were taught to spout figures at a torrential rate to confuse the buyer, and to never put a deal in writing. If a customer took out his own piece of paper and pencil to note figures, the salesman was instructed to take out his pencil, break off the point, then impatiently grab the customer's pencil...