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...industry's increase in production since Korea has been big enough to outfoot taxes. Of 16 reporting companies, only two showed a decline from 1950. The $249 million net of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) was up nearly 60% over last year's first half. Socony-Vacuum's net rose percentagewise even more (to $76 million); Shell boosted its profit from $39 million to $46 million...
...makes no decisions is evading the hardest part of the task. It is comparatively easy to raise doubts....But doubt should be regarded as the prelude to belief...If beliefs are demolished, they should be built again, or others in their place. If this is not done, the vacuum will be filled by authority, hearsay, or superstition...
...thousands of U.S. music lovers, the summer downbeat has come. With packed picnic baskets and brimming vacuum jugs, sunburned families from Massachusetts to California are ready to follow top singers and instrumentalists into parks, amphitheaters, hills and valleys for a season of music with the sun, stars and mosquitoes...
...point with some; one passenger described its men's room as "a place that would turn a vulture's stomach." But what irritates a few Cantonians most is the grudging attitude of Pennsylvania employees toward passengers. Said Assistant Vice President H. W. Hoover Jr. of the Hoover (vacuum cleaners) Co.: "They show . . . utter disregard of their responsibility to the public." Hoover executives are so indignant that they refuse to ride the Pennsy from Chicago to their headquarters at Canton...
Sausages & Caskets. In its 15 plants (seven in the U.S., eight in Canada, Scotland, France, Italy, Brazil and Germany), Singer makes 1,500,000 sewing machines a year, also turns out vacuum cleaners, electric fans and irons. Singer makes close to 4,000 different sewers, from a child's model sewing machine (three Ibs.) to a giant industrial machine (2,526 lbs.), designs them to do everything from sewing up sausage casings to finishing casket linings. Latest gadget: a seamer that binds plastics together with an electric current instead of a needle & thread. Most of Singer's output...