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...Trowbridge, a bullpen hopeful early in the season, worked long hours with Braves Pitching Coach Whit Wyatt, learned to put a sharper break on his slider. Fortnight ago 28-year-old Trowbridge pitched seven hitless innings against the Giants, is now a valued reliefer with...
Washington's statisticians released still more figures showing that the economy's rebound from recession, already sharper than in any other postwar upturn, is picking up speed. Items:¶ Industrial production for July stood at 133 on the Federal Reserve's index, up three points since June and seven points higher than the recession low of 126 in April (see chart). At this rate, say economists, the pre-recession level of 145 in August 1957 may well be topped before year...
...enthusiastic about this concept. The beauty of ablating materials is the lightness that they allow in a nose cone. A solid-fuel missile like the projected Air Force Minuteman ICBM (due in 1963) would be badly overloaded with a heavy copper nose. Now the Minuteman will reportedly get a sharper, ablative nose, as may later advanced versions of the liquid-fuel Atlas and Titan, thus returning advanced missilery to orthodox streamlining...
...Government bond prices fell, shoestring speculators were forced to dump their holdings, driving down prices more. One new Treasury issue, the 2⅝% bonds, fell to 95.16 last week, despite the Treasury's unusual step, in July, of buying back nearly $600 million of the issue. An even sharper skid hit the 3¼% issue: it dropped...
Overall, the recession hit bottom in April 1958 in the jig time of nine months-two months faster than the 1949 recession and a full four months sooner than in 1954. At times, particularly during February and March, the current slide was sharper than in the other two recessions. But so was the upturn. Gross national product has apparently turned around after dropping for two quarters, v. a year of backing and filling in 1949 and a year of decline in the 1954 business downturn. Industrial production recovered in eight months, v. eleven months and twelve months before any steady...