Word: growth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does U.S. economic growth compare with that of the Soviet Union? Last week the National Bureau of Economic Research gave a qualified answer in its annual report: on a percentage basis, industrial output in Russia has risen more rapidly than in the U.S. since 1928, but only about one-fourth as rapidly as the Russians claim. Russia's growth statistics are peppered with gaps, probably omit some stagnant or declining industries, use highly doubtful totals. Most of Russia's gain has been the result of massive diversion of manpower to industry, a regimented movement roughly similar...
...hour has been rising even faster than national product per capita (which is by far the highest of any nation), has'jumped at a rate of 35% to 40% a decade since World War II-and is still growing by the day. The reasons for the growth, says the report, are not only an increase in the volume of capital goods (of which the U.S. has more than any other nation), but the U.S.'s large and growing investment in education, science and technology. Russia's rapid industrial growth is a factor that must be reckoned with...
...Protestants should request equal TIME. If my information is near correct, our growth will probably outstrip the growth during the same period of the Roman Catholic Church...
...demand not only at home but by developing world markets. In Western Europe and Canada percapita consumption of aluminum is only 6.2 Ibs. a year v. 21 Ibs. in the U.S. Says Reynolds' President R. S. Reynolds Jr.: "International markets will be the next scene of dramatic aluminum growth...
...growth of major cities on the West Coast encouraged packers and farmers to set up markets at Denver, Kansas City, Omaha and other points closer home. At the same time, the spread of new highways and the upsurge of the trucking industry offset Chicago's advantage as a rail center. Livestock production spread east and south. In World War II, rationing and price control, strictly enforced in Chicago, encouraged behind-the-barn slaughter throughout the farm belt. Once broken of the habit of shipping to Chicago, many farmers never went back. By 1954 there were 2,367 separate packing...