Word: annually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technology adds to its longevity. The tin can used to rust away; now comes the immortal aluminum can, which may outlast the Pyramids. Each year, the U.S. produces 48 billion cans, plus 28 billion long-lived bottles and jars. Paced by hardy plastic containers, the average American's annual output of 1,600 lbs. of solid waste is rising by more than 4% a year. Disposal already costs $3 billion a year...
...things cheer shareholders like a stock split, and last week few share holders were as cheery as IBM's. At their annual meeting in Boston, 2,300 of the faithful (of a 359,495 total) heard Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr. announce stockholder approval of the eleventh split in the company's 57 years...
...dividends, to be sure. At cur rent prices IBM's annual dividends ($4.35 last year) amount to a mere .7% return on investment, against 4% for other manufacturing stocks and 5% for bank savings accounts. But growth is something else again. As a result of splits-including this week's-and other distributions, a 100-share investment in 1914, which would have cost $2,750, has grown to 59,320 shares worth more than $20 million...
...imports-which has been the cornerstone of U.S. global economic power since World War II. From a peak of $7 billion in 1964, that surplus shrank 41% to $4.1 billion last year. So far this year, the record has been even worse. The first-quarter surplus fell to an annual rate of only $731 million, the lowest in 31 years; during March, the U.S. trade balance actually ran $158 million...
...demands of the campaign include the creation of 2 million federal jobs for the nation's poor, expanded model cities and rent subsidy programs, the establishment of a guaranteed annual income for those unable to work, and immediate relief for hungry people in hundreds of rural counties...