Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From the ages of 20 to 60, cancer incidence is higher in women, after that in men. Before 65, cancer in women usually originates in the reproductive organs (breast and genitals), after 65 in the digestive system...
...gross national product averaged $387 billion, a good 6% higher than 1953's alltime peak. Industrial production was some 10% better than last year and 3% better than the 1953 high. The hard work was well rewarded: corporate profits were a record $44 billion before taxes and $22 billion after taxes; dividends of $10.9 billion were $1 billion more than 1954; average weekly wages of $76 were at a new high...
...Government's antitrust lawyers and Congress fretted about the effects on competition. Yet it was the Government's own tax policy that encouraged the trend. With high corporation taxes, expansion-minded companies looked around for weak firms with tax-deductible losses to balance their gains. With even higher income-tax rates it was also a good way for the individual businessman to sell out for a relatively low capital-gains tax and retire with a fortune. As a prime example of how mergers worked in 1955, Textron, Inc., after years of trouble, merged with Robbins Mills...
...with the same speed of 1955. But though the U.S. may rest to digest what it has already produced-and the breather may stir up cries of "recession"-the forecasts for 1956 are impressive by any standard. For 1956, Administration economists predict a total G.N.P. of $403 billion, 4% higher than 1955. Personal income is expected to jump to around $310 billion, about half the 1955 advance, while savings hold steady at the 1955 rate. Though industrial production will not equal igss's 11 % jump, it is expected to edge up. The Government's budget, unbalanced...
Costs & Cars. One peril of prosperity in 1956 will be inflation. Prices are already inching up. Industrial materials are climbing, with producers of steel, copper and aluminum complaining about higher costs, and probable increases of 4% to 5% during the first six months...