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...have had to absorb a considerable amount of disillusionment in the past two months. All right, let's take it and get whatever benefits may derive from it, but let us not develop a taste...
...been forced at times to import cattle, both for local consumption and for export as corned beef. Moreover. Uruguay's Swiss-style federal-council government must continue to pay 150, 000 government employees (in a population estimated at 3,000,000). carry on an elaborate pension plan, and absorb the losses of at least seven mismanaged nationalized businesses, e.g., liquor manufacturing, a repertory theater, railroads. The result is deficit spending on a grander scale each year-and consequent inflation...
...production, Chance Vought is counting on missile contracts for its Regulus and heavy orders for a faster, improved all-weather F8U, which it now has on the drawing boards. Douglas figures that its $2.5 billion backlog and its big business in missiles and commercial jets can easily absorb the slack of the Skyhawk stretch-out. And to help offset the stretch-out in orders for its eight-jet B-52 bomber, Boeing last week got its first production contract for its ramjet Bomarc interceptor missile. The sum: $139 million...
...that she has not been incapacitated for her job by her woefully inadequate training. But will she have the wisdom to give her children an education very different from her own? Will she above all see to it that Prince Charles is equipped with all the knowledge he can absorb without injury to his health, and that he mixes during his formative years with children who will one day be bus drivers, dockers, engineers, etc.-not merely with future landowners...
...course of the U.S. economy. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks added his bit last week. Secretary Weeks's appraisal: "Spotty." He was worried about inflation's steady spiral, which pushed living costs to an alltime high in June (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Yet the economy seemed well able to absorb the high prices-at least for the moment. In 1957's second quarter, the gross national product climbed to an annual rate of $433.5 billion, some 5% more than last year; half the gain was due to inflated prices, but the rest was a result of new production. Predicted...