Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between the Reefs. By boosting the price of money and keeping it scarce, the FRB hopes to steer the economy through the twin reefs of industrial overexpansion and wage-price inflation. The demand for loans is outstripping the supply because record levels of employment, wages, spending, business investment and construction are straining U.S. credit resources more heavily than they have been pressed since...
...have soared nearly $2.5 billion (to $28.6 billion-150% more than the increase in the same period last year). At the same time, businessmen have been borrowing funds for long-term projects on the short-term market, hoping that interest rates will come down. Meanwhile, to damp down the demand for credit, the Federal Reserve has let the overall supply of lendable bank funds dwindle...
Clear Road Ahead. The hike in discount rates was intended not only to cool off the demand for credit but to ease down on inflation. The FRB moved none too soon. The Government announced last week that the cost of living jumped 0.7% for the second straight month in July, setting a new record (17% above the 1947-49 level). Moreover, the upsurge, paced by bigger-than-seasonal rises in fruit and vegetable prices, promises to take another bite out of the dollar. As a result of the cost-of-living increase, 1,250,000 union workers will automatically receive...
...Grape-Juice Navy." Since its outset, Welch's has flourished mightily at the expense of winebibbers. Though Thomas Welch at first was willing to write off grape juice as a Christian endeavor, demand from churches and teetotalers soon forced the company into bigger quarters at Westfield, N.Y., the self-anointed "grape-juice capital of the world." Founder Welch's son, square-jawed "Dr. Charles," ran the company "as much as a temperance agency as a profit-making concern," capitalized on anti-liquor sentiment with the slogan: "Get the Welch habit-it's one that...
ANTIQUE SALES in U.S. are riding crest of a steady five-year rise, with last year's imports of $16.9 million doubling the 1953 total and this year's figure keeping pace. As big antique demand spreads to broader, more discriminating market, supply is rapidly dwindling in traditional European markets, and dealers are looking more to Asia, Africa...