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...Francisco, General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice took a hard look at G.M.'s prospects for 1954 and concluded: "We are in a very comfortable position." G.M. is heading into the big spring selling season with near-record production, even better sales than expected to date. Employment is up 30,000 over last year...
Despite these weaknesses, a full-scale depression along 1929 lines appears highly unlikely, Harris continued. With government expenditures still at near-record high, a better pattern of consumption and spending spread throughout the economy, strong farm supports, and a more enlightened attitude toward economic problems on the part of the federal government, the American economy seems fundamentally sound, he explained...
DESPITE recession talk and scattered layoffs, many industries, such as steel, are headed for one of their most profitable years. Overall corporate profits this year now seem likely to hit near-record peaks, second only to the alltime high...
...most agricultural products, not only the U.S. but Europe had near-record bumper crops last year. On had both sides of the ocean, barring an extension of the Korean war, nations are faced with surpluses of everything from wheat to dairy products...
Fund Council's near-record of $527,903 given by alumni, added to the $389,627 collected earlier in the year from the Graduate Schools, brings the total of all annual giving at Harvard to a record $917,530, David T. W. McCord '21, executive secretary of the Council, announced yesterday...