Word: mid-march
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...rush orders. Confirming an earlier Commerce Department report, a new McGraw-Hill survey shows that industry's capital spending plans for 1961 have been revised upward a bit since last fall. Even unemployment, the economy's most serious long-range problem, declined slightly more than seasonally between mid-March and mid-April...
...hopeful signs in the U.S. economy were more than just the usual spring tonic. Steel production hit 63% of capacity, with output for the month estimated at 7,500,000 tons-the highest figure in eleven months. A spring surge boosted mid-April auto sales 8.9% over mid-March as Ford and General Motors re called laid-off workers. Last week's production of 115,306 cars was down 7.4% over the preceding week, but still was the second-healthiest week the carmakers have had this year...
...business upturn will not make any appreciable dent in the U.S.'s 5,500,000 unemployed, 1,800,000 of whom have been out of work for 15 weeks or more. Last week the Labor Department announced that, while the total of jobless in the month ending in mid-March declined by 200,000, the decline was less than seasonal. Unemployment now stands at 6.9% of the total work force. Paradoxically, employment rose more than seasonally to a new March record of 65.5 million, up 1,249,000 over a year...
...tried to disarm his 5,000-man army. Premier Joseph Ileo in Leopoldville and Rebel Chief Antoine Gizenga in Stanleyville roared their own defiance. To face these threats, the U.N. needed more manpower; the Congo combat force was already down to 17,500, would drop to 13,800 by mid-March if the Indonesian and Moroccan troop units pulled out and went home as planned. Needed was a minimum total of 20,000 men. On the day after the big debate, Dag Hammarskjold began recruiting among the Indians, Pakistanis, Iraqis and other Afro-Asian delegates...
...trouble began in the winter-lettuce fields near El Centro. Winter lettuce is the valley's most speculative product. The season lasts only three months, from mid-December through mid-March, when most other lettuce producers are weathered in. In that short space of 90 days, the valley's farmers supply the U.S. with 80% of its winter lettuce for an annual take of $22 million. Depending on Eastern supply and demand, prices rise and fall like a roller coaster. Says one grower: "It makes the stock market seem tame by comparison." Into this vulnerable area, where...