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...Mitchell claimed. The city's welfare costs, according to state figures, were lower than those of comparable cities. Mitchell claimed that 5% of Newburgh's population was on the dole; the state estimate was 2.9%, slightly under the state average of 3.05%. According to Mitchell, a large slice of Newburgh's welfare money has been paid to recent immigrants; state experts noted that the city had actually spent only $1,395 in the past two years on relief assistance to newcomers...
...months were off by more than 100,000 from 1960, but its share of the market held fairly steady at 21%. Chevy lost part of its sales to its own brother, Corvair, which scored with the Monza-a hot-selling, bucket-seat job that increased Corvair's market slice from 3.3% to 5.6%, second highest among individual compact models...
...protect its lion's slice of the British gasoline market from hard-driving competitors, Shell-Mex & B. P. Ltd., jointly owned marketing arm of the Shell group and British Petroleum, turned to an articulate advocate of the hard sell. In as the company's managing director went John Emerson Harding Davies, 45, youngest man ever to hold the post. A World War II major who credits the British Army with "giving me an opportunity to develop initiative," ex-Accountant Davies likes to spend his time with salesmen in the field, argues that many decisions that used to consume...
With interest I read your article "Diplomacy-Penny Ante" (April 21). I happen to be one of the Dutch editors who got his slice of meat snatched away at the conference in Noordwijk...
...Crimson sailors made their first good showing of the year in light winds. On Saturday, spotty wind and fog forced postponement of four races. But on Sunday, in off-again, on-again winds, a Crimson team whose best performances had come in heavy weather, was able to slice six points from M.I.T.'s first-day ten-point lead...