INDUSTRIAL EFFICIENCY in the U.S. is being rapidly stepped up. In tne year ending with 1955's first quarter, says the Federal Reserve Board, productivity (i.e., output per man-hour) in the nation's factories rose about 6% v. an average 3% rise in the years just before World War II.
NEW ORDERS by manufacturers for machines and supplies are picking up so fast that the National Association of Purchasing Agents sees little chance of a second-half business letdown.
JOHN L. LEWIS' mineworkers will join the merged C.I.O. and A.F.L., predicts Jacob S. Potofsky, president of the C.I.O.'s Amalgamated Clothing Workers, who also says that the...
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