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...rate of $130 billion during the second quarter of 1973, 37% faster than a year earlier. U.S. production is still climbing and unemployment declining, a condition that can hardly be called recession-yet. All the same, soaring prices and scarcities, above all of food, are producing a series of hardship stories frighteningly reminiscent, in a supposedly affluent society, of tales of the Great Depression...
...much gas. We want our laws strictly enforced, but if we are cited for speeding the officer involved is a stupid s.o.b. We want the Government to solve all of our problems without infringing on our freedom, raising taxes or making us undergo any real effort or hardship...
...trailer camp was typically a scruffy mom-and-pop parking lot, often in a small corner of nowhere. The type still exists. But the new sites proliferating from California to Maine, as the following color pages show, are modern amusement centers in choice resort areas. On these spreads, hardship means going without a six-channel cable TV set or a phone hookup-both of which are likely to be available for a small fee. Such basics as running water, electricity and sewage lines are taken for granted; athletic facilities and organized social activities are common. Says Maxine Bessemer, who owns...
...this year. Slowly but surely, a semi-socialist nation that takes economic equality for granted has developed a small class of discreet, quiet-living millionaires (2,000 at last count). Yet its 1,300,000 Sephardic Jews, who emigrated from North Africa and the Middle East, live in relative hardship compared with the Ashkenazic Jews of European origin...
...north of the old caravan-crossroads city of Irkutsk, is being opened up through dams on the Angara and Yenisei rivers. Nearby will be smelters, wood industries and chemical factories. The Russians' pride is the $1 billion Bratsk Dam, which was completed in 1964 after ten years of hardship and which contains as much masonry as the Great Pyramid of Cheops. "That was our October," says one veteran, using the image of the Russian Revolution to describe the days when construction workers lived in tents at temperatures of 60° below zero. Today the effort is being duplicated...