Treasury Passes Up Call on 8 Billion in Bonds
Washington May 9 Treasury for the first time in 18 years passes up a call opportunity on 2 percent bonds issued 1943 and due Sept 15 1953 totaling 7 986 262 500. It will not call the Sept 15 1951 date and instead funds a separate 3 percent issue of 755 million from 1931 due Sept 15 1953 to be refunded by short term securities while offering new savings notes at rates above recent levels starting May 15 with 1.41 percent for six months or less and 1.38 percent for a full three year term.
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Cost of Producing Plutonium Halved Since 1946
GE reports plutonium production costs cut to half of 1946 levels due to better techniques and operations. Hanford plant head George R. Prout cautions no rapid peacetime power use, notes long road to a practical plant and estimates costs tenfold current steam plants. He confirms no radiation harm to workers and cites birth rates above national average.
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Americans drink more champagne in 1957 thus far
Alfred Fromm president of Paul Masson Vineyards in Saratoga Calif reports champagne sales in the first four months of this year up 45 percent from the same period in 1956.
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