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...down their request for financial backing, they came to Fairchild. He set them up in Fairchild Semiconductor Corp., as a division of Fairchild Camera, gave them stock in Fairchild Camera. Their success in developing the transistor (division sales may hit $30 million this year) is partly responsible for the spurt in Fairchild stock...
...only significant decline in the price index was made by used cars, for a reason that boded well for the rest of the economy: the continued spurt in new-auto sales. In the middle ten days of May,new-car sales climbed 6.6% over the same period last year, hitting the best selling rate (more than 22,000 daily) since 1955. Sales are now moving at an annual rate of 6,700,000 cars (including imports), which would make 1960 the second biggest car year in history. Scheduled production for June is 631,000 cars, the highest volume...
...Most Rigorous." Fueled by war babies and hunger for status, the spurt in Ivy League applications ranged from 10% over last year at Cornell to 28% at the University of Pennsylvania. The average: 16%. With an 18% boost in final applications, Princeton's Director of Admission C. William Edwards called the selection job "the most rigorous in my experience." It was just as bad for women's colleges. Radcliffe had 1,000 "well-qualified" applicants for a freshman class...
Biggest educational spurt is among U.S. Negroes. In 1940 only 8% of nonwhite adults had completed high school; last year 20% had done so. And while 80% of nonwhites were illiterate just after the Civil War (and Negro emancipation), the figure is now sharply down...
...strike would be followed by a big rush of businessmen to rebuild inventories that would further squeeze credit, boost interest rates and perhaps nip the boom. But the Commerce Department announced last week that the inventory total in the fourth quarter remained about level. Though there was a December spurt in inventories, it was not as big as expected. The Commerce Department now expects that inventories will accumulate by the end of the second quarter at an $8 billion rather than a $10 billion rate, thus spreading out buying and making growth more steady through 1960. This is already partly...