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...will defend Matsu and Quemoy at all cost. On-the-spot military observers give Chiang little or no hope of holding the offshore islands against Red invasion without U.S. intervention. Matsu, although farther from the mainland "than Quemoy, is considered more vulnerable because of its small size (roughly 7 sq. mi.). On Matsu Chiang has one regular division, all the troops (10,000) the island will accommodate efficiently. Dug in on Quemoy's 70 sq. mi. are about 50,000 Nationalist regulars, one-fifth of Chiang's entire effective ground force...
AUTOMATED OUTPUT LINE will be built by Plymouth in Detroit to increase production of its new V-8 engine. To be in operation late this fall, the enlarged plant will have 530,000 sq. ft. of floor space, two parallel production lines for engines, with all the latest automation processes for machining engine blocks. Estimated cost: $48 million...
...sold 8,806 Mercurys, well above any similar period in the division's history. Chrysler sales were running upwards of 70% over last year. To keep up with the increasing demand, Chrysler will expand further. President Lester Lum (Tex) Colbert announced that Chrysler will build an 800,000-sq. ft. automatic-transmission plant in Kokomo, Ind., have it in operation for 1956 models...
...Artloom have all switched over to the new tufted rugs. Besides cotton, the industry is now using new synthetic yarns. Masland has an allrayon rug that, it says, wears better and stays clean longer than cotton and has about the same resiliency as wool. Cost: about $10 a sq. yd. Firth has coated wool with vinyl plastic to make it wear longer; Nye-Wait and others have brought out nylon rugs that cost more than wool ($15 to $45 a sq. yd.) but wear better, are mothproof, and have a rich, glittery shine that housewives like. The stylists have...
Some of the rugmakers are even experimenting with Orion and Dacron as rug fabrics. One of the newest: Masland's Saranette line ($11 a sq. yd.) made from Dow Chemical's Saran, which is softer than nylon and has the advantage of being almost impervious to ordinary stains...