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Chiefly responsible for providing these new horizons for Southerners is the Larchmont Engineering Co. of Lexing ton, Mass., which has perfected a snowmaking machine that combines water and compressed air in a jet to make a giant atomizer. When the resultant droplets hit the air (provided the temperature is below 30°), they freeze into tiny granules that make a dense powder snow. With enough piping, twelve nozzles and suitable terrain, the snowmaker can produce an 8-in.-deep ski slope 250 ft. by 1,000 ft. overnight. If greater acreage is needed, just add more pipes and more nozzles...
...disparity between France's low-cost farm efficiency and Germany's cosseted high-cost output. Mansholt proposed an obvious solution: fix wheat, which is the key to the whole farm price scale, roughly halfway between the German and the French prices, at $106.25 per metric ton...
...years old. While Britain had 75 computers installed in 1957 v. 55 for the entire Common Market, six years later it had only 550 against the Market's 1,500. U.S. Management Consultant William W. Allen has pointed out that it takes three Britons to produce a ton of steel v. one American worker, that shipbuilding in Britain uses about 40% more men than necessary, and that it takes three to six times as long to build a house in Britain as in the U.S. Asked Allen: "Is Britain a half-time country, getting half-pay for half-work...
...plenty of basis for confidence. In industries as diverse as rubber, furniture and electronics, top officials last week reported record sales for 1964-and said that they expect to do at least as well in 1965. The steelmakers have already surpassed 1955's production record of 117 million tons and are well on their way to a 125 million-ton year; the automakers last week set an alltime weekly production peak of 223,500 cars. Personal income is rising by an average of almost $2 billion a month, and retail sales, running 4% ahead of last year, are headed...
...developed an excellent community image that impresses local customers. The company recognizes, of course, that it cannot meet its challenge from the East with good will alone. It is spending $125 million this year for a computerized hot strip mill, a tin-plate cold rolling mill and two 250-ton oxygen furnaces at its huge Indiana Harbor complex in East Chicago, the most concentrated facility in the industry...