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Listening to testimony for and against the proposed $20-per-capita cut in federal income taxes, the U.S. Senate's Finance Committee last week heard a clear contrast between the economic philosophy of the Eisenhower Administration and that of the Fair Deal Democrats. Speaking for the Administration was Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, lawyer and industrialist. For the Fair Deal Democrats the spokesman was Leon Keyserling, lawyer, economist and onetime bureaucrat, who was chairman of President Harry Truman's Council of Economic Advisers...
...types of commercial energy used in a year by Russia amount to only 1½ tons of coal equivalent per capita (v. 7½ tonsby...
...year. Publisher's Weekly, the industry's statistician, guessed that 1953's alltime high of 12,050 new titles would be equaled or surpassed by Dec. 31. It seemed likely that 1953's record sale of an estimated 600 million copies (3.7 new books per capita) would be at least matched. The literary record was another story...
State Department planners have accepted as a target M.I.T.'s cautious estimate that, once started, World Partnership for Growth would make possible an overall 1% annual increase in income per capita for the underdeveloped nations of the world. Considering the poverty and vast size of the populations involved, this is no mean target. But it is easily within the giant capabilities...
...live births) is down from 47 in 1940, 99.9 in 1915. It is highest in New Mexico, lowest in Connecticut and Massachusetts. In a year 7,495 Americans are murdered (but the rate is lower than in any year since 1910) and 15,909 are suicides (less per capita than in any year since...