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Frederick James Cox first popped up among the shelves and stacks of the London Library when he was a lad of 16. In those days, the library was only 41 years old-a private place of study, established by men like Thomas Carlyle who wanted something more convenient and less...
This unpleasant news was first uncovered last spring when Birmingham's city analyst, armed with a new $1,400 spectro-photometer,* began testing vitamin products taken from the shelves of Birmingham pharmacies. His report: 42% of the samples "advertised as containing specified amounts of vitamin A" were no good...
Everyone knew that some segments of U.S. industry had been in a summertime slump. Last week businessmen learned how deep the slump was. During the second quarter, the nation's production of goods & services hit a record annual rate of $325.6 billion (up 20% from a year before). But...
A ceasefire, however, will certainly hit one soft spot in the economy: retail trade. Merchants who have been depending on a stepped-up arms program to pinch supplies and clear out their overloaded shelves, now will probably be overloaded for months, or, as some say optimistically, "till the pickup in...
Consumers had stopped stocking up on goods, because many of the shortages which were forecast so gloomily six months ago have not materialized. Automobile production is running about equal to last year's rate. This week, the 3,000,000th car of the year will roll off U.S. assembly...