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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1962
Page
4
Profits lag as national gain outpaces corporate returns
The piece notes rising per capita income and output yet shrinking corporate profits. It cites Sun Oil data showing sales doubling in 15 years but after tax profits dropping from about nine to five and a half percent of national income. It argues profits fuel expansion and modernization amid tougher global competition and a need to invest up to 99 billion dollars to modernize American plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sun Oil Company
America
Secretary of Labor
Social Security Funds Face Future Under Senate Proposals
Washington’s Peter Edson reports that Senate debates on child welfare public assistance and medical care for the aged hinge on expanding coverage and raising base deductions. Projections show trust funds fragile but argued to self correct with wage growth. a new medical care fund would add separate deductions starting January 1 1964.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Edson
Washington
Enterprise Assn
NEA
Senate
Social Security Administration
Disability Insurance
Congress
Babson on Diversification Across Industries
Roger Babson argues diversification is essential after surveying Gloucester and Rockport's old industries. He recalls the fish, granite, and general merchandise trades, noting how shocks like quick-freeze methods, asphalt paving, cement, and steamships reshaped fortunes and urging readers to spread investments across multiple sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gloucester
Rockport
Babson
Horn
China
Atlantic Ocean
Cape of Good Hope
India
East Indies
Third life success for a 90-year-old retiree from Shelbyville
A. H. Schmaitter of Shelbyville Indiana details a life of multiple retirements and productive work after 65. He began as an insurance agent in 1900 then managed the insurer’s office building, retired again at 85 to craft bird boxes and garden, and remains active in church and daily tasks with his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams Street
Biddeford
Maine
Paul Casavant
T. J. Mahoney
Associated Press
A. H. Schmaitter
Shelbyville
Ind
Schmaitter
Columbus
Schmauzers
Insurance Company
Schmauzer
Schmaitters
Biddeford Elm Disease Prompts City Action Call
Richard Lizotte writes from Biddeford urging the city to combat Dutch Elm Disease plaguing elms along streets and threatening shade trees. He notes authorities in northern Maine spray trees to control the disease and asks Biddeford to follow suit before more trees die.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford-Saco
Biddeford
Maine
Richard Lizotte
An Atom of Hope by Don Oakley
The piece suggests that despite nuclear tests by Russia and the United States, progress toward disarmament may occur. Remote monitoring of underground tests improves, potentially easing on site inspection disputes. A treaty hinges on trust, while peaceful nuclear uses in Novaya Zemlya and Nevada may help break the deadlock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
America
Pacific
Nevada
Geneva
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Novaya Zemlya
Mass distribution drives modern retailing shift toward big volume
The article argues that mass distribution underpins contemporary retailing across foods, variety, department stores, drugs, and restaurants. By moving large volumes at small per sale profits, retailers win margins on overall dollar sales, benefiting consumers despite low per item profits. It notes ongoing innovations like discount houses and shopping centers and ends with a humorous line on kids picking cherries for pay.
Faulkner in Hollywood a free wheeling writer with Hawks
Hollywood obituaries note Faulkner hid little pride in his film work yet spent years at studios with Howard Hawks. Hawks recalls their first project in the early 1930s, Faulkner finishing scripts in days and shaping roles for Joan Crawford and others. Their collaborations include To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, and Road to Glory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
William Faulkner
Howard Hawks
Hawks
Paramount
Faulkner
Ben Hecht
Charlie MacArthur
Alexander Woollcott
New York
Able
Crawford
Clark Gable
Gable
Imperial Valley
Ernest Hemingway
Willa Cather
Thomas Mann
John Dos Passos
Also Mentioned on This Page
Thomas Sprat
Washington News
Washington Bureau Report
Roger Babson
Peru
By John M. Hightower
United States
White House
Lima
Kennedy
Latin America
U.S
Alliance For Progress
United State
Lace Journal
Babson Park
Mass
Massachusetts
Frank E. Davis
Clarence Birdseye
Interior Department
Cape Ann
Rockport Granite Company
Hong Kong
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Nathaniel Babson
McCrory
and Veterans Guide
People’s Forum
Benton
BY Don Oakley
Kelly
la Guardia
Connecticut Town
Jeversey
Black Sea City
Baker's Companion
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