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...business forms. Steelmen will get $60 million worth of business, textile spinners $50 million, and the remaining $40 million will be disbursed among producers of everything from lumber and zinc to musical movements and tiny electrical motors. In 1964 the makers of construction materials and machine tools will also reap big benefits from the toymakers. Planning big increases in their capital outlays, like most of U.S. business, the toymen in 1964 will spend $250 million to expand and modernize their plants...
Many children are now operating mathematically on a much higher plane than their contemporaries of a decade ago. Those of us who see what is happening from the inside believe we will soon reap a considerable harvest from our present efforts...
This businesslike and narrow style of education is slightly out of date. In its early years the U.S.S.R. needed scientists, teachers, and technicians desperately. But today Soviet technology has sent men into space, education is universal, and the consumer is beginning to reap the benefits of industrialization...
Sales to Russia? Manufacturers reap a $1.5 billion-a-year harvest from fertilizer, and their sales are growing 9% annually. Led by the biggest manufacturer, International Minerals & Chemical Corp. of Skokie, Ill., some 20 companies have plowed into the field, including such chemical giants as W. R. Grace, Monsanto, Allied and Du Pont. Since few farmers still rely on the less effective animal fertilizers, many meat packers-including Armour and Swift -have kept up with the times by diversifying into chemical fertilizers. Lately, half a dozen U.S. oil companies-among them, Gulf, Socony Mobil, Cities Service and Kerr-McGee-have...
...draft leads to another evil which Mr. Gitlin does not mention. High school and college graduates who have not serverd their time, but who are still eligible, are discriminated against by employers. Many who enlist do not do so from any desire to serve their country or to reap the benefits of a military training, but rather to eliminate the prime obstacle to decent employment...