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APPLIANCE SALES will break all records in 1956, says Bernard A. Chapman, general manager of American Motors' Kelvinator Division. Though the rate of increase may taper off, the market is still so strong that the industry will sell 15,755,000 "major appliances" (refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, etc.) next year, a 6% increase over...
...billion in the first nine months of 1955, to $34.3 billion), and at the automobile industry's $14 billion share of it (although repayments are remarkably regular and repossessions low). Because Defense Secretary Wilson is an ex-G.M. man, G.O.P. politicians have tactfully suggested that he taper off on G.M.'s defense contracts. They are now down from 19% of G.M.'s business in 1953 to less than 10% in 1955, although Pentagon purchasing agents give G.M. topmost marks for quick decisions and on-schedule delivery...
...governments--traditionally responsible for education-- simply cannot meet the new financial burdens. Within five years, Eisenhower's estimate of a $7 billion capital outlay will have doubled, and enrollment--already rising more in one year than in the entire twenty years between 1930 and 1950-- is not expected to taper off. In short, state governments and local school districts cannot hope to underwrite the growing costs of adequate public education; the federal government must step...
...Capital outlays, now rising $4 billion a year, will taper off to an increase of $2 billion a year...
...Self Condemned, like all Wyndham Lewis' books, shows just why Lewis is self-condemned never to revel in bookclub riches. It demands steady concentration and hard thinking, strikes through to the heart only by way of the head. The book is what its hero Rene Harding calls "a taper in a tornado." Author Lewis is likely to be lighting such tapers for some time to come. To be released this month are the radio adaptations of two new novels commissioned from him by the BBC. Though nearly blind as the result of a tumor involving the optic nerve, Lewis...