STATE OF BUSINESS: $5 Billion Clip

In the first six months of the Korean war, the Government was ordering military goods at the rate of about $1.8 billion a month. Since then, ordering has been stepped up. Said the Office of Defense Mobilization last week: military orders are now running at a clip of about $5 billion a month.

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