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Much of U.S. business prosperity is due directly to credit-fueled consumer purchasing. The automobile industry this year will sell close to 9,000,000 cars-three-fifths of them on credit. The nation's fastest-growing new industry, color television, this year will sell 2,300,000 sets-more than one-half on credit. Many an American sends his youngsters to college on a "dollars-for-scholars" loan, is up to his eaves in mortgage payments, buys his clothes on the cuff (65% of department-store purchases are charged), and then gets away from...
...despite the market break of 1962, and the ranks of mutual-fund holders increased 48% , to 3,200,000. Reflecting the nation's westward shift, California replaced New York as the state with the largest number of shareholders. Cities of under 25,000 population have the fastest-growing number of shareholders, minors are the fastest-growing age bracket in stock ownership (total: 1,280,000 owners), and housewives are the largest group (51% of all stockowners are women). Commenting on these figures, Stock Exchange President Keith Funston said that most of the stockholders are not speculators but rather people...
...wildly cheering countrymen at Rennes, he breezed through the mile in an astonishing 3 min. 53.6 sec., chopping a full .5 sec. from the world record set last year by New Zealand's Peter Snell. The week before, Jazy turned a 3-min. 55.5-sec. mile, the seventh fastest in history, and topped that by setting a new European record of 13 min. 34.4 sec. in the 5,000 meters, only 8.6 sec. off Australian Ron Clarke's world mark. Late last week, trying again to break Clarke's record, he missed by only...
Personal & Business. The fastest-expanding area is auto credit, now at $25.4 billion. Ten years ago, the typical car buyer made a down payment of 30% and carried the balance over 28 months; today he puts down only 25% and finances the car over 32½ months. Personal loans, like the kind Lyndon Johnson took out to help pay his income taxes, have also risen sharply, to $16.5 billion. Revolving credit in department stores, now $2.5 billion, has doubled since 1961. Credit cards still account for only $633 million, but are climbing by 20% a year...
...billion-a-year market in aerospace exports. General Electric unveiled a full-size mock-up of the engine with which it proposes to power an American supersonic transport, even though the U.S. has not formally decided to develop one. Lockheed showed its experimental XH-51 helicopter, the fastest (270 m.p.h.) in the free world, and a Lockheed C-141 StarLifter, the largest craft at the show, flew across the Atlantic with an inflatable Army field hospital. The Defense Department showed off combat aircraft that ranged from McDonnell's supersonic Phantom F-4Bs to a 20-year...