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Show Bits O' Business And Things To, Come BITS O' BUSINESS U. S. auto makers racked up another new production record in the first six days of this month. The industry turned out an estimated 191,585 units for the week. The previous high was 179,063 .... Don't be surprised sur-prised if shoe prices step up another notch. With rising leather leath-er costs putting the pinch on manufacturers' profit margins, many producers think a price increase is inevitable unless the squeeze is removed soon .... A sample survey of last year's individual income tax returns revealed that more than a fourth Of the country's 52,000,000 taxpayers tax-payers had errors on their blanks. The mistakes mostly in favor of those filing, of course totaled approximately $l,500r-000 $l,500r-000 .... Longer work-weeks in the metal-working, machinery, machin-ery, home-building and automotive automo-tive industries helped to push factory wokers' wages up to a new peak in April: $56.89 a week average for the durable goods industries. THINGS TO COME Here's one that really holds water three-fourths of a cupful, cup-ful, in fact. It's a plastic-handled iron which can produce steam for an hour and a half without a refill. Designed with a rear heel that permits non-wrinkling non-wrinkling reverse stroWas, it also has "fade-away" button nooks to simplify ironing under buttons You can paint on either dry or damp surfaces with a new oil-base anti-rust paint. It also works on surfaces surfac-es which haye rusted . . . : . There's no longr any need to grind out cigarette butts if you use a modern sanitary ashtray. You can snuff them out in a couple of seconds by "dunking" them in a small hole-filled plastic plas-tic ball in the center of the tray .... For parents with tots who resist the sandman every night there's now a musical lamp that "lullabies" them off to slumberand. Press a button, the music starts, and the light dims gradually. |