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Sales and new orders of manufacturers both dropped 1% in December on an adjusted basis, and manufacturers' unfilled orders stood at their lowest level in ten years at month's end. Consumer credit in December expanded $76 million, the smallest gain since October 1958. Automobile installment credit, the largest single category of installment buying, failed to make a gain over the previous month for the first time in two years. In January, department-store sales across the nation suffered a 3% decline from the same month last year, and a 3% falloff from December. The Commerce Department also...
Nine or ten half courses for next year and the revival of English I two years from now will bolster the English Department's now-slim list of offerings for undergraduates. But students this spring will still have to choose from the smallest selection of middle group English courses in recent years...
...square-mile terms, New Jersey, with 7,836, is the fifth smallest state in the Union. In population, with 6,000,000, it is the eighth biggest and the most densely populated. In 1961 New Jersey will be one of two states (the other is Virginia) to hold gubernatorial elections. As such, it will be considered a major testing ground for approval or disapproval of the national Democratic Administration. Moreover, whichever party wins the Governor's chair-to be vacated under the state's constitution by two-term Democrat Bob Meyner-will have a long...
...unit for measuring relative loudness of sounds, the decibel is approximately the smallest degree of difference that, a human ear can detect between the loudness of two sounds...
...representatives of the Anglican, Methodist, Congregational and two Presbyterian churches, all of whom backed the entire document. Also among those voting were the three Dutch Reformed Churches, at least some of whose representatives backed it. Later the Dutch Reformed Churches found it necessary to clarify their stand. The smallest of the three churches-Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk with over 200,000 members-rejected the resolution and stood pat for total segregation. The two largest-the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerks of Cape and Transvaal, with a combined membership of more than 1,200,000-insisted as before that "a policy of differentiation...