STATE OF BUSINESS
Encouraged by the fading Suez crisis, the stock market last week scored the biggest week's gain since 1938, with industrials soaring 22.01 points on the Dow-Jones average to close at 494.79. Across the board, a pre-Christmas surge of business sent old records falling. The Commerce Department reported manufacturers' sales at a new high of $30.1 billion in October, $1.6 billion better than the previous record of last March; new orders rose to $29.5 billion, $300 million above last August's previous high. Personal income also set records: after topping previous peaks for two straight months, it rose again in October...
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