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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was good news in a statistical improbability last week: the cost-of-living index for March, announced the Bureau of Labor Statistics, stood at 114.3 (1947-49 = 100), precisely where it was in February, January and December. Not in 40 years had it held steady for four months...
...March the Federal Reserve Board's industrial production index climbed to 137 (1947-49 = 100), eleven points above a year ago and only one point shy of the alltime peak set in March 1953. Residential construction was one-third higher than in 1954's first three months, and business spending for new plants and equipment in the second quarter is going to increase so much that outlays for the year as a whole will be well ahead of last year...
...from 19 nations are attending a reactor training school in Chicago, and 32 students from abroad have signed up for a special course in radioisotope techniques to be held at Oak Ridge next month. In addition, the U.S. has assembled technical libraries of nuclear information, each with 45,000 index cards. Japan, Italy and France have already received such libraries, and other nations will soon get them...
...publication of the Yalta papers (TIME, March 28)-retired Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, onetime personal physician to Franklin D. Roosevelt and now head of the International College of Surgeons, stoutly denied that Roosevelt was a dying man at Yalta. F.D.R.'s wan appearance was no index to his general health, said Dr. Mclntire. The President had lost 15 Ibs. after a bout with flu and bronchitis, looked scrawny-necked because his shirt collars were needlessly loose. "He refused to buy any new shirts," recalled Mclntire. "The President was kind of tight about some things...
...spring upswing in business picked up momentum from almost every industry. The Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production headed for a record-tying 137 (1947-49 = 100), the high point reached in May 1953. Steel output moved up to a rate of 116 million tons yearly, topping even the record rate of 111,600,000 tons set in 1953. Blast furnaces produced at an estimated 92.8% of capacity last week, nearly 40% above the previous year. Nevertheless, for the first time since 1953, a shortage loomed. Consumers complained of shipments as much as 30 days behind schedule...