Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important indicator was outlined last week by Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks, who told the National Association of Manufacturers' meeting in Manhattan (see BUSINESS) that business activity in the first half of 1956 will rise to new heights. Weeks's forecast was based on a Commerce Department survey indicating that private capital expenditures for new plants and equipment for the first three months of the year will run at the highest rate in history, 12% above this year. If business activity and employment make only a moderate rise, total U.S. revenue will go up substantially. Each dollar over...
They were in the closing days of their best year in history, and on the verge of one that might, as Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks said, be even better (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The increases in capital spending planned by some industries were eye-popping: railroads would spend 55% more in the first quarter of '56, durable-goods manufacturers 25% more, nondurable-goods makers 12% more...
Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks was stricken twelve years ago with angina pectoris, a condition less likely to cause permanent heart damage than coronary thrombosis. Weeks now considers himself fully recovered, works a five-day week from...
...SINCLAIR ARMSTRONG Chairman...
...Washington next day, some Cabinet members were less game. Douglas McKay said he had spent the trip trying to estimate what a helicopter costs, concluded that it was "probably too much." Said White House Aide Fred Seaton: "They ought to give them to the farmers to flail wheat." Remarked Sinclair Weeks (who came by car): "I'd just as soon ride in a boiler factory." "Gratitude & Appreciation." Despite the unsettling side of "Operation Banana" -a highly successful exercise in Government mobility nonetheless-Administration leaders last week settled down at Camp David for conferences with the convalescing President. As Secret...