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...Flowing Westward. Not since U.S. Steel decided in 1905 to put a plant on the hunk of Lake Michigan sand that is now Gary, Ind., has a private project had such opportunity to change an entire area. The mill will start off employing 2,500 people in a plant for finishing rolled steel shipped from the East. Jones & Laughlin hopes that the plant will eventually be completely integrated from blast furnaces on up, expects it to generate satellite manufacturing industries to use its steel. Says Jones & Laughlin Chairman Charles M. Beeghly: "We are talking about the largest single development...
...years of relative peace and an almost continually prospering economy have given them new status and new life. Where there once was one mansion, there are now a hundred $50,000 summer "cottages"?a euphemism that still lingers. Along with the economy and the population, resorts have proliferated westward. Founded on less rigid social standards than those that governed Eastern watering places, resorts in other parts of the country often start with a structure or an area rather than with people. And they offer facilities, rather than snobbery. Today there is scarcely a U.S. family of means...
...adult Americans owns stock today v. one in 16 in 1952. The number of stockholders in the past three years climbed by 3,100,000, despite the market break of 1962, and the ranks of mutual-fund holders increased 48% , to 3,200,000. Reflecting the nation's westward shift, California replaced New York as the state with the largest number of shareholders. Cities of under 25,000 population have the fastest-growing number of shareholders, minors are the fastest-growing age bracket in stock ownership (total: 1,280,000 owners), and housewives are the largest group...
...trade deficit rose to a record $424 million, draining off the country's scant reserves of foreign exchange. Many factories were forced to halt imports of raw materials, slow down production lines and lay off workers. Faced with creeping unemployment and mounting foreign debts, the government has turned westward for help on two fronts: it is exporting tens of thousands of workers to temporary jobs in labor-short Western Europe, and it is shopping for loans in the U.S. and elsewhere in the capitalist world...
...found the man at his elbow. Captain Meriwether Lewis, Jefferson's lifelong friend and private secretary, was a Virginian who at 29 combined impressive military and diplomatic experience with a lively intellect, immense stamina and wide knowledge of the frontier. Go west, young man, said Jefferson-and westward Lewis went...