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...Later. The factories showed no slackening in their pace. Last week production was up to 155,000 v. 139,600 the week before. Nevertheless, most dealers thought they could unload all their 1955 models before changeover time in September and October. One reason is that buyers believe, rightly, that the industry's recent wage increases will push up prices for 1956 models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Too Many Cars? | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...could limit itself to local tactical action aimed at stopping the invasion of Quemoy and Matsu. Both Quemoy and Matsu lie so close offshore that U.S. naval and air operations would be severely restricted in effectiveness. Fleets of Red junks assembled and launched by night might unload their troops before U.S. sea and air forces could stop them. Even in the face of this sort of U.S. intervention, the Communists might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Time of Decision | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...Deluge. What came was the crash of Dienbienphu. During that decisive battle, Diem discerned that his time to serve might be at hand. He quit the monastery and moved into a garret in Paris. The French, in part because they needed someone on whom to unload catastrophe, offered Diem the Viet Nam premiership, with their first acceptable promise of independence. On June 15, 1954, Ngo Dinh Diem took the job and headed back to Saigon. "We don't know where we're going," said one of his aides, contemplating chaos, "but the captain is reliable and our boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The Beleaguered Man | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...consumed by slow and inefficient ground handling." Only a small number of the major U.S. airports have separate air-freight terminals; most lines process their freight through passenger terminals or makeshift sheds. Furthermore, most cargo planes flying today are not suited to the job, are hard to load and unload, often have high maintenance costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: AIR FREIGHT | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...time he pulled out 350 carloads of laborers at Joppa, kept the motorcade touring for two days around the plant. Then Bateman pulled out his pipefitters over squabbles about who should unload pipe from trucks. In 29 months, work on the Joppa plant was stopped more than 40 times. Ebasco fell so far behind that the Bechtel Corporation took over its contract (TIME, Oct. 4). The delays added $58 million to the cost of the plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Chicago Boy | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

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