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...result, found by a recent General Accounting Office survey: of the 1,200,000 vets and dependents now on pensions (1959 cost: $1.1 billion), 17% own $10,000 or more in stocks and other family property, 3.4% of the married pensioners have $5,000 family incomes or better...
...trip to Moscow last month was his arrangement with Premier Nikita Khrushchev to send a trade mission to the Soviet Union "in the near future." Last week the Russians gave a rude shock to British businessmen whose hopes had been roused by windy Communist talk of a $2.5 billion rise in East-West trade. Before a British commercial group in London, a Soviet trade expert read off a blunt message from Nikita Khrushchev: "Countries that are interested in increasing their exports to the Soviet Union should increase their purchases from it." Most of what the Russians are willing to sell...
...Capital spending this year will be 6½% higher than in 1958, hitting an estimated $34.2 billion, according to a survey by McGraw-Hill Publishing...
...states enacted appropriate laws. Currently, Editor Streeter is busily engaged in a crusade in which the stakes are no less than the future of the American farmer, afflicted as he is by a self-defeating Government program that this fiscal year is costing the U.S. taxpayer a scandalous $5.4 billion. Stabbing out articles with two fingers on his typewriter, Streeter calls for a gradual reduction of the Government's subsidy program, an increase in vigorous, quality-conscious farmer-cooperatives to the point where they can influence prices. Says Carroll Streeter, invoking the same rugged independence that has made...
...order of Chairman Mao Tze-tung and the Communist party Central Committee, a subsidy of a billion yuan will be used for pump-priming in communes and production brigades which are lagging...