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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...food have gone up more than 30%. Over the same span, retail food prices have increased only 13%. This moderate rise in food prices reflected increased processing and distribution costs; prices received by farmers actually declined during the 1950s, and have only slowly inched upward under Freeman (see chart). The average U.S. family spent 26% of aftertax income for food 15 years ago; today food takes only 19%. Says Freeman: "This is the smallest share of income spent for food by any people, anywhere in the world, at any time in modern history." In contrast, expenditures for food take...
...have been "holding" at Level B, Chart 3, since April...
...above chart indicates the radius (in miles) of the area of 100% mortality, with or without fallout shelters. For example, if a 10 megaton bomb burst over the Harvard Yard, Concord would be within the area completely destroyed...
Moreover, as one result of automation-the world's biggest bogy word to most union leaders-the so-called white-collar workers have for the first time passed in number the lunch pail-carrying blue-collar men, who are the backbone of unionism (see chart). Since white-collar workers historically identify themselves with management, they are hard to organize-and the unions have made only the smallest dent in their ranks...
There are six charts in 5BX, each with five exercises increasing in difficulty from chart to chart. The aspirant to fitness is expected to work up through twelve different levels of quantity and speed on each chart before progressing to the next. Thus the D-minus level of chart 3 must do 20 sit-ups in one minute, but the A-plus level should do 32 in the same time. Ordinary civilians 40-to-44 are advised to aspire to nothing higher than Level C of Chart 3 (see cut): Exercise 1, 26 times in two minutes; Exercise...