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Farmers traveled to the scene of the strike from nearby desert settlements just to dip their hands into the oil spreading out over the reddish earth. "Blessed be this day," a group of them prayed. In faraway Manhattan, Israeli oil stocks boomed (see BUSINESS...
Nevertheless, in 1954 the U.S. consumed but 83 million bbls.-4,000,000 bbls. less than the alltime peak in 1947. In terms of per capita consumption, the dip is even sharper; beer sales last year were down almost 15% from the wartime high of 18.7 gals, per person. And beer is not the only beverage industry hit: hard liquor sales have slumped nearly 30% from the postwar high, to 1.18 gals, per capita. And sales of soft drinks are also down...
During the adjustment after the end of the Korean war, a dip in employment brought a chorus of doom and gloom. But never before has the U.S. gone through a postwar economic adjustment with so little disturbance. The number of U.S. residents now gainfully employed (62,703,000) is the highest ever for this season of the year. Unemployment (2,489,000) is a regional rather than a national problem, and is centered largely in chronically sick industries, e.g., textiles and coal...
...indeed. In May the alltime monthly steel production record of 10,168,000 tons, set in March 1953, was topped. No one expected that the industry as a whole could maintain the current operating rate of an estimated 96.3% of capacity. Some time this summer, operations are expected to dip, possibly as low as 80% to 85% of capacity, then climb back in the fall...
...omens and enchantments, brimming with the life, dress and manners of the time, The Twelve Pictures also breathes life into a profounder theme-the last-ditch war of the pagan spirit v. the Christian faith. Author Simon writes a slightly cramped neo-archaic prose, but few living writers can dip a reader's mind so wholly and fascinatingly in a sense of the past...