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...billion, it was still a full 38% above the 1949 level. The Federal Reserve Board's index of production dropped a maximum of 10%, but at year's end it was heading up again, and was already above the corresponding level of 1953. Despite the slight dip, industry spent $26.7 billion on expansion, only 6% less than in 1953. And Americans were able to make more money after taxes ($253 billion) and spend more ($233 billion) than ever before. Among their purchases: 5,300,000 cars, 3,400,000 refrigerators, 6,400,000 radios. While overall appliance sales...
Caution & Hope. As the year began, every businessman knew that the dip in business towards the end of 1953 had raised a great question for 1954: How well could the Administration, with its growing set of economic tools, help industry to combat the drop? The test came at a crucial time for an Administration determined to balance the budget and get government out of business. With the Korean war ended, huge cuts in defense spending were due. Farm income had been falling for two years, and the Administration intended to dump the rigid-support prices that had lessened the slide...
Such a message, particularly the upbeat ending, would accurately reflect Canada's year-end mood. Earlier in the year, the nation's confidence was shaken by forebodings of depression. Unemployment was on the increase; industrial wage scales began to dip. Western Canada's wheat crop was the poorest in 17 years; retail business fell off. The gross national product, the handiest yardstick for measuring economic progress, appeared to be headed sharply downward...
...with a preference for dark blue pin-stripe suits, grey ties and white silk shirts. At home he likes to lounge around in pajamas, reading, sipping coffee and chain-smoking strong Brazilian cigarettes (Hollywoods). Younger-looking than most men of his age, he still takes an occasional early-morning dip in the Atlantic surf on Copacabana beach. Despite his extensive reading, he is less educated, less cultured than Vargas was-but he promises to make a better President...
...become a one-way street. But for the moment, at least, the bulls were roaring. One bullish factor, paradoxically, was supplied by the bears. It was the near record short-interest figure of 3,100,000 shares (the number of shares sold short in anticipation of a market dip). Though much of this represented investors protecting long-term gains, any decline was bound to be cushioned by the shorts buying to cover their sales...