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...first time since World War II, prices in the U.S. are generally holding steady during a period of recovery. In some cases (food, specialized steel products, paper), prices are even falling-enough so that last week the Labor Department announced that the Consumer Price Index had dropped one-tenth of 1% in May. But the price line would not hold for long in the face of major wage hikes. With an eye on Detroit, President Kennedy and his economic advisers have emphasized that the Administration would look unkindly on inflationary labor settlements. And a month ago, Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg...
...much of all this Florence understands is another question; much of the information she spews has been recorded by her mother, a high-school graduate, on index cards that are used to drill the child in her amazing assortment of information. "I tell her all the time that words are beautiful,'' says Mrs. Jerome Jacobs, in New York City accents that have crossed the Hudson River to the Jacobses' middle-class apartment in suburban West New York, N.J. Eight months ago Florence was already reading, writing, and using such words as "expectorate." Supplying her with enough books...
...year. In its semi-annual forecast out this week, FORTUNE reached much the same conclusions. It predicted that by Christmas of 1962 the U.S. will see a $575 billion G.N.P. and a near-record 25% jump from the recession low in the Federal Reserve Board's Industrial Production Index. Suggesting that unemployment may well drop below the Administration's "acceptable" rate of 4% by the end of next year, FORTUNE added: "It is a real question whether there will be enough productive capacity for the economy's demands by late...
...summer begins, the U.S. economy has pretty well scaled back to its pre-recession peaks of production. On the Federal Reserve Board's production index, industrial output for May hit 108% of the 1957 base-three points above April and six above the recession low in February. And Washington economists predict that in June the index will rise to within a point or two of the alltime high of 111% set in January...
Lighter Burden. As yet, economists are not sure whether the shift means a permanently lower level of inventories or simply that inventory will henceforth be a more sensitive index. And they have one caution about the momentum of inventory accumulation: if the auto industry cuts back its high dealer inventories (which now stand at 941,000 cars) to make way for 1962 models, overall inventories may be robbed of real improvement in the third quarter. But if the inventory turn-around continues, it will ease the economy of a heavy weight. Not long ago. Statistician Paradiso estimated that gross national...