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...from 1956 through 1958, and most of the drop (5.1%) was in 1958. Answered Dave McDonald last week: "An enormous error." He calculated the respective declines at only 3% and 1.9%. B.L.S. hastily double-checked, admitted with embarrassment a "clerical error." A bureaucrat had substituted the total of stainless steel ingots shipped (18,443 tons in 1958) for the total of stainless steel ingots produced (895,119 tons). Still refiguring at week's end, the B.L.S. expected that Dave McDonald's answers would prove correct. Moaned one bureau staffer: "Had we goofed on beet sugar instead of steel...
Vinyl Steel. U.S. Steel announced a vinyl-coated sheet steel intended to compete with stainless steel, anodized aluminum, porcelain-enameled steel, etc. in many furniture, appliance and automobile interior uses. The scratch-and stain-resistant vinyl coating withstands up to 30% stretching without separating, makes possible many new shaping operations. Price (on 24-gauge steel...
Prefabs at $59. First model made in the U.S. was almost as big as a commercial laundry machine and cost up to $7,000. Dr. Kolff has now got it down to a stainless-steel tub 24 in. across, 17 in. high. Three-fourths of the artificial kidneys in U.S. use are of this type, made by the Travenol division of Baxter Laboratories. Cost: $1,300. Most important economy feature: instead of big moving parts that took hours to sterilize and set up, the core of the kidney now consists of a disposable unit of cellophane and plastic wire...
Candid. In Neosho, Mo., an ad in the News boasted of "EXPANSION WATCH BANDS, Men's and Ladies', gold filled $2.95, stainless $1.50, values...
Tables with Legs. At a time when American decorators are taking up Japanese-style sliding doors and silk screens, many Tokyo housewives now cook with gas, wash dishes in stainless steel sinks, and serve meals, not to a family sitting cross-legged on straw mats, but at Western tables. By 1993-"in time for my 107th birthday"-Kano hopes that Tokyo will be a city of skyscrapers, is even planning to build one 20 stories high...