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...what the consumer and the Government actually buy. After running at a net gain of about $10 billion for the first two quarters, the rate of final demand fell back to about $2 billion in the third quarter. Combined with a drop in inventory accumulation, this was enough to depress the G.N.P...
...effect, the new quotas will keep Cuban sugar exports (and employment of Cuban sugar workers) near normal, though Cuba will still lose the extra $150 million the U.S. previously paid above world prices. The council's fast reshuffling of trade discouraged buyers' hopes that unallotted quotas would depress prices. On the contrary, the world sugar price went...
...Barbiturates depress the alertness center and intensify the sleep component, are therefore doubly sedative...
...last vestige of constitutional democracy. Through his tame Supreme Advisory Council, Sukarno ordered sweeping land-reform measures, directly threatening the vast plantations producing rubber, palm oil, tobacco, tea, sugar and coffee chat have been in foreign hands for decades. It was an action that seemed certain to depress even further the nation's faltering economy (the Indonesian rupiah stands at 450 to the dollar on the free market, as opposed to a "legal" value of 45 to the dollar). At week's end, despite the strafing, the grumbling of members of the dismissed Parliament, and the political...
Harsh & Punitive. It was clear to LaBuy that the Government's plan would depress Du Pont stock by eliminating the huge dividends that the company is paid by G.M. (1958 total: $116 million). By forcing Du Pont to sell 2,000,000 G.M. shares yearly, it would also flood the market with G.M. stock, depress the price of G.M. More important to LaBuy was a ruling by the Internal Revenue Service that any G.M. shares spun off to Du Pont stockholders would be taxed at the full market value as ordinary income...