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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm, the outlook was not so good. The Agriculture Department predicted last week that net farm income in 1959 may drop 5% to 10% below 1958, after a year of the highest farm profits in five years (see chart). Hog and poultry prices are expected to decline, and crop prices will be lower as a result of this year's record crop and surpluses. Next year's crop may be equally large, or larger, partly because the Government will scrap soil-bank payments to farmers for underplanting their acres, thus depriving them of $700 million in payments made...
...month. Manufacturers' sales, especially durables, were still slowed down by new model changes and by cautious buying for inventories by distributors and retailers. But with retail sales on the rise, merchants expected the gap between increased manufacturers' new orders and sales to be only temporary (see chart). Other recovery items...
...French economy from the ruinous burden of Algerian war and found it fit at last to throw away its iron lung and breathe the bracing air of free competition. But they are also uneasily aware that the general (who respects but does not love the British) intends to chart an international course independent of his allies. The British now fear that they cannot change events before Western Europe splits into two groups-the "ins" of the six-nation community, and the "outs...
Since seizing power 13 months ago, Strongman Sarit has spent most of his time abroad undergoing treatment for a chronic liver ailment in Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, and then in Britain. Back home, his Chart Sang-khom Party seemed safely in control of two-thirds of the seats in the Assembly, after an election he had decreed; his own man, General Thanom Kittikachorn, was Premier; young King Phumiphon was carefully holding himself above politics and giving no encouragement to the opposition. When a Soviet attaché and a Tass newsman spoke slightingly of Sarit this month, the government...
...facts hardly supported Balderston's fear of a credit burst. Consumer credit has held fairly steady this year (see chart), as consumers cautiously kept from stepping up credit buying. Furthermore, payoffs have been good; the Veterans Administration reported last week that veterans holding G.I. home loans have set a "remarkable" record by paying off some $11 billion in home mortgage debts...