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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past six years to settle the dust. Yet last week 123,550 acres of the valley's virgin soil lay plowed and planted for the first time in history. Crisscrossing the land was a symmetrical pattern of brand-new concrete canals and irrigation ditches filled with fresh water. Higher up, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains that parallel the coast, lay the source of the life-giving moisture: the new, stone-faced $16 million Miguel Hidalgo Dam, finished last year...
Boron fuels, with their higher energy and higher temperature of combustion, will come close to doubling the range of airplanes. In long-range missiles, they may make the difference between success and failure. They will be expensive (at least $1 per lb.) and probably highly toxic. They will burn with a bright green flame, and their exhaust, a white cloud of solid boron compounds, will be so poisonous to vegetation that tests will have to be run in deserts...
Though some businessmen worried about deflation, the enemy, on the record, is still inflation. In February, for the sixth straight month, reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the cost of living jumped another notch, rose .4% to a new record of 118.7 on the 1947-49 average, 3.6% higher than February of 1956. Except for clothing, every major group of consumer goods was more costly, with food prices up .7% for the month to a Ievel 4.4% higher than at the same time last year. Will the rise continue? Said Labor Statistics Commissioner Ewan Clague: no one can tell "because...
Other economists thought that inflation's peak had probably passed, at least for the time being, but that the overall index might well rise higher in the next few months owing to the time lag on slow-reacting items such as housing. More sensitive indexes charting the prices of wholesale goods, especially raw materials, already seemed to be tapering off or falling. And though consumers are still buying heavily, they are not so anxious to go into debt. Said Chase Manhattan Bank President George Champion: "The tendency to overextend consumer credit is beginning to right itself. Down payments have...
...such earnings higher than they should be? Said W. Alton Jones, chairman of Cities Service Co.: "Any fair appraisal will show that these earnings have been reasonable and, in fact, have been lower than those of many other major industries, including iron and steel, motor vehicles and equipment, and chemicals. Fair and reasonable industry earnings are necessary if the petroleum industry is to meet its large capital requirements...