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...Buildings Commissioner W. Englebert Reynolds, stays up only "by force of habit." Some of its beams carry ten times their normal stress. The marble grand staircase is in danger of collapse. The heavy (70 Ibs. to the square foot) frescoed ceiling of the East Room has a six-inch sag, had to be shored up with timbers to prevent its caving...
From the old Long Island whaling port at Sag Harbor to land's end at Washington's Cape Flattery, the U.S. was engaged, once more, in that peculiarly American rite-the celebration of autumn. To millions, it was the finest time of the year; the season which somehow best suited a country which still remembered Indians, wild turkeys, log barns and the long, westward crawling of wagon trains...
...effects of competition and the buyers' market. With the backlog in trucks about gone, profits fell for such smaller producers as Mack Trucks (down 50%) and Autocar (down 90%). Colgate-Palmolive-Peet's half-year profits dropped more than 50%. Bendix Home Appliances also felt a sag in sales, reporting a profit of $900,550 for the second quarter v. $2,565,-208 for the corresponding period last year. Profits of shoe companies were down; International Shoe...
...first quarter, reported SEC, the net sales of 1,070 U.S. corporations had risen 19% above the 1947 period. And there was plenty of buying power: in April, personal incomes had gone up $1.4 billion, reaching an annual rate of $209 billion. In some lines which had felt a sag in sales, strange and wonderful things were happening. A few weeks ago, for example, some home appliances were in the doldrums. But when the Iron Age set out to probe the slump last week, it was flabbergasted: demand had picked up so much that manufacturers were again talking up allocations...
...crest cf the boom been reached? The department found some evidence that it had. In three states (Florida, California and Louisiana), land prices had begun to sag. Land values almost everywhere else were still rising, but the rate was down from 1947. Income-wise, farm land was still cheaper than at the peak of the World War I boom, as the cash yield per acre is now 59% higher...