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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still working a six-day week, kept producing and selling Ramblers apace. ¶ Steel production, though somewhat behind the forecasts, set a 19-month high with 76.9% of rated capacity and 2,178,000 tons' actual production. This week's schedule: a jump to 79.7% and the best level since the boom-time days back in April...
Ford Motor Co. last week wheeled out a racy earnings report that was a prime example of the fast snapback scored by many a recession-hit corporation. In the last three months of 1958. Ford earned $111.9 million or $2.05 a share, the second-best fourth quarter in its history (best: 1955). This wiped out the nine-month loss, gave to the company a respectable net for the year of $95.7 million or $1.75 a share...
From such facts Martin and other experts argue that the best way to expand is to improve the economic climate, so that businessmen will have the incentive to accomplish greater growth themselves. They want to work toward a balanced budget, not merely for the symmetrical sake of balance itself, but in order to cut taxes as an encouragement to both business and consumers. Even the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Ruttenberg admits that tax cuts "worked" when the Administration chopped taxes $7.5 billion in 1954: the next year's growth was 8%. How to cut taxes and still maintain vitally...
...here begins the long, slow, exquisite resolution of the drama: the story of how the mother dies in order that Apu may live as he was meant to live. The mother gives and gives, the son takes and takes. The only thanks she gets are sulks, or at best indifference. Her heart bleeds, but she is wise enough to understand that in hurting his mother he is only trying to end his dependence on her; that the pain he inflicts on her is a measure of the fear he feels that he may fail to become a man. At every...
...down in conventional autobiographical manner was the beginning: "I was born the 30th of November, 1835, in the almost invisible village of Florida, Monroe County, Missouri . . . The village contained a hundred people and I increased the population by 1 per cent. It is more than many of the best men in history could have done for a town...