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...sold in the open, now come wrapped by the manufacturer. Such unlikely products as peanut butter, meat tenderizer, cocktail mixes and blue cheese spread are now dispensed from aerosol cans, and the industry is working on squeeze tubes that will give forth coffee, fish bait and ski wax. "Shrink films" of plastic that mold themselves to a product's shape now protect everything from layettes to turkeys, and other films are being developed that can wrap around liquids and eliminate the need for bottles...
...coal seams at Inland's mines are similar to those in the truck mines. They are more productive because Inland decided about eight years ago that the only way to compete was to mechanize. That decision has caused the work force to shrink by almost 90 per cent, but the company has let natural attrition rather than firing take care of the depletion. Operators of the truck mines note that Inland was able to mechanize because it was assured a market--Inland's steel plants--and because the company had large capital resources. Regardless of the reasons, though, Inland...
...Shrinking Force. No one disputes the fact that the textile industry has been shaken. Cutthroat competition and increasing automation have combined since 1947 to reduce the number of U.S. textile producers from 8,157 to about 7,500, and to shrink the industry's work force from 1,240,000 to 880,000. Though sales rose 13% last year to about $16.5 billion, profits of close to 6% on invested capital were three-fifths of the average for all manufacturing. Textile manufacturers are also running into rough competition from such textile substitutes as paper napkins and plastic seat covers...
...answer to rumors that the bakery has a small job turn-over which makes job openings infrequent, Day said "this may well be." "Our position is that equal opportunity employers have an obligation beyond the willingness to hire any applicant. Past experience throughout the country has shown that Negroes shrink from applying to companies with a history of discrimination...
...while it burns hydrogen and changes it to helium just as normal stars do, and the temperature in its center rises to 70 million degrees. Then the star burns its helium, forming heavier elements. Its central temperature rises to 500 million degrees, while its powerful gravitation causes it to shrink toward its superheated middle. In spite of its enormous mass, the great star is now only about one-third the size of the earth's orbit...