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¶ A student with a liberal-arts degree who used to buy books because "they looked nice on the shelves," now subscribes to the Book Find Club and the Readers' Subscription, is an inveterate browser in the university bookshop. In the old days, says he, "I used to go...
What encouraged steelmen most was the fact that demand from other industries was still growing. Railroad carbuilding was picking up, with a corresponding upswing in orders for steel bars and plate. The booming construction industry was putting the pressure on producers of galvanized sheets, while appliance makers, striving to furnish...
The Commerce Department reported that manufacturers' new orders rose $800 million, to $24.7 billion in December, a thumping $3.3 billion above the year-ago figures. And helped by a $453 million rise in consumer installment credit, to a record $22.5 billion, the goods were moving off retailers' shelves...
For hot-rodders' wives, G.M.'s Frigidaire division showed off a "kitchen of tomorrow." At the touch of a button, chopping boards and ovens swing into convenient reach, knives are practically handed to the cook. Cooking surfaces fold back into the wall when not in use, hard-to...
After the contest started four months ago, the paper picked up about 70.000 new readers. To win the $25,000 in prizes, contestants have to guess the names of towns in New York state represented by scram bled anagrams (see cut) and described in such clues as: "People of one...