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During the G.N.P.'s upswing, the U.S. cost of living held just about steady, meaning that the added output was solid growth, not mere bloating. Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that in February lower food prices brought the consumer price index down one-tenth of a point to 123.7 (the 1947-49 average = 100). That was two-tenths of a point below last November's record high, and only four-tenths of a point above the March 1958 level...
This term the college received $2,400 under the act, one-tenth of the amount originally requested. Additional grants are expected in the Fall. "Small as it was, the Federal aid was very helpful," the Dean commented. Now many students needing assistance and especially those on scholarships find they are better off borrowing and utilizing the extra time at study...
Despite the rising demand, the consumer price index inched up only one-tenth of 1% in January, to 123.8% of the 1947-49 average, still below the peaks of last July and November. The price index has ridden on a plateau for the past nine months, the longest period of price stability since the U.S. started to compile monthly figures...
...estimated 350,000 people, one-tenth of the population, are unemployed, and last week Bourguiba ordered all men over 20 who are not in the army to join a conscript labor force in a desperate effort to jack up the impoverished economy. In a fit of nationalism, he refused to devalue his currency along with France, and thereby priced Tunisia's products out of the world market...
...Known so far only as NIH 7519, it appears, he said, to have "painkilling power at least ten times that of morphine." (By this phrasing, scientists do not mean that it can kill pain ten times as severe as morphine does, but that it kills the same pain with one-tenth the dose.) At the same time, said Flemming, "it gives preliminary promise that a partial separation of the analgesic and addicting properties may have been achieved...