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...consumer demand is continuing to increase came last week from the Federal Reserve Board. It announced that consumer installment debt in June rose by $452 million (seasonally adjusted), the largest addition for any month since September 1955. The June increase raised total outstanding consumer installment credit to a new high of $35.8 billion...
...says Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon, exports will rise $1 billion in the next year, led by lower-priced U.S. cotton and the new jets. These new realities of world trade have moved the Administration to take a sterner view of foreign nations that still jealously preserve high tariffs and import quotas against dollar goods long after the need is past. At next month's annual meeting of the World Bank in Washington, the Administration will launch its strongest campaign yet to persuade other nations to ease their trade barriers against...
...Streeters believe that an end to the cold war would be bullish, since it would open the way for a cut in the U.S. budget and in taxes. The Dow-Jones industrial averages dropped 6.31 points in the week, led downward by the electronics stocks. Electronics manufacturers were flying high; Texas Instruments reported alltime-high second-half earnings of $1.62 per share v. 66? last year. Its stock dropped 20⅜ points during the week to close at 126⅛. Volatile Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. announced first-half earnings of $1.61 per share v. a $104,000 loss last year...
...TITAN NOSE CONE will be developed by Avco Corp. under $73,360,000 Air Force contract. New design will permit faster re-entry into the atmosphere by dissipating excess heat through erosion of high-heat resistant materials...
...patient care -and now the National Foundation said it could not allot more because all its funds were committed. Snapped Mayor Bartle to a foundation spokesman: "I think you have sold the people a bill of goods." Councilman Charles C. Shafer Jr. tossed in the time-worn allegation about high headquarters overhead: "There's just too much discount by the Foundation before the money gets to the people...