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...inflation is worsening the payments problem. Last week the Commerce Department reported that shrinking exports gave the U.S. a trade deficit of $157 million during March, the first since January 1963. As a result, the nation's normally robust trade surplus shriveled in the first quarter to a meager annual rate of $731 million, about a sixth of the surplus the U.S. achieved last year...
Consider the Mayor's first dilemma: he can undoubtedly use his prestige and influence to move the meager poverty funds still available into any of a number of directions. But funds are very limited--and has no way to get resources on the scale needed...
Although 1965 marked the enactment of the voting rights law and King's successful campaign in Selma, Ala., it also brought the riots in Watts. To many Negroes, the pace of gain was too slow and too meager. King went northward, turning his battle toward economic issues in New York City, Los Angeles...
...Strippers. Besides fresh meat, Oscar Mayer & Co. offers under its brand name 135 varieties of sausages and some 70 other processed-meat products, notably bland luncheon cuts and wieners (Mayer & Co. will accept the word frankfurter-but hot dog is taboo). Since 1954, in an industry traditionally plagued by meager returns, it has also squeezed out more profit than any other leading meat packer: 2.38% of sales in 1967, v. an industry-wide average...
...steel producers intend to invest about $12 billion to expand, modernize and automate. Then there is the nation's annual investment in research and development: last year it took $24 billion. Contrary to John Maynard Keynes-who theorized that economies eventually mature, stop growing, and then demand only meager amounts of capital-it is now clear that as economies become stronger and more sophisticated, their appetite for capital increases...