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...Approach. Manufacturers should study future tax needs of any community, before moving there, Tomb warns. "Southern states have a larger proportion of school-age children and correspondingly larger needs for educational funds . . . As southern cities and towns grow with the expansion of industrial activity, everyone will want and need more housing, hospitals, roads, and soon. These will have to be provided at today's higher cost...
...manufacturer cut production costs by moving to the South? Many a manufacturer has answered yes and made the move in the belief that lower wages and taxes would enable him to produce more cheaply. Last week, in the current issue of the Harvard Business Review, Management Consultant John O. Tomb held up a warning finger. Says he: "As a section, the South no longer offers a guarantee of lower costs than the North...
...whole; construction in the South rose 268%, v. 183% nationwide; half the scheduled expansion of the chemical industry and four-fifths of the expansion in the pulp and paper industry are planned for the South. As the industrialization of the South continues, cost gaps will continue to close. Says Tomb: "The South's once plentiful supply of labor is diminishing. Increasing competition in the labor market ... is being reflected in higher pay rates, lower productivity, and added fringe benefits. Moreover, even where labor costs are low now . . . the advantage may be lost by the time a new plant...
...through the pitch-dark passages of the ship, the air in his life jacket buoying him gently, but not so much as to force him against the overhead, where he could not maneuver. After a few awful minutes, he drifted out of the Perth like a ghost from the tomb...
Those who watch the stone-faced panjandrums of Communism elbowing for position atop Lenin's tomb on rubric days concluded last week that fast-rising, tough Nikita Khrushchev, 59, First Party Secretary since last March, is now No. 3 man. Khrushchev is a dogged bureaucrat who rose to power in a succession of nasty jobs-gauleiter of the unruly Ukraine and boss of the restless collective farmers...