The 1,600 prosperous delegates who streamed into Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria Hotel last week for the 62nd Congress of the National Association of Manufacturers had one big question on their minds: How prosperous will we be in 1958? They soon got reassuring news from their own ranks. After taking a poll answered by 4,330 manufacturer members, who make up a wide spectrum of U.S. business, the N.A.M. announced that 45% expect no significant change in business next year, and more than a third look for sales to go up; only one in five...
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