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...movable goods it produces, that U.S. exports in 1957 added up to $19.5 billion, a sum greater than the domestic sales of the entire U.S. automobile industry. Added Agriculture. Secretary Ezra Taft Benson: in 1957 the U.S. exported $4.7 billion worth of farm products, about one-tenth of the total output. In order to protect the nation's vast and vital export trade, argued Weeks and other Administration witnesses, the U.S. must import goods so that foreign countries can earn dollars to buy U.S. products...
...happened so fast that Ron ran the last quarter in 56.4, was clocked for the mile in 4:03.7, just one-tenth second short of the indoor record. It was obvious that even if the Hungarian gets around to running up another record for himself, The Delany will probably be pounding home in front of that race...
Throne Room. Baja California's economic importance lies in the northern one-tenth of the 780-mile-long appendix, in the area between Mexicali, the capital, on the east, and Tijuana, near the Pacific coast. Cotton is king there, and Mexicali, its population nearly tripled (more than 160,000) in five years, is its prosperous throne room. It has U.S.-style real-estate developments, with hundreds of houses in the $10,000-to-$1 5,000 class. Last year 55 gins, six cottonseed-oil mills and four compresses-the world's biggest concentration of ginning facilities-swallowed...
...thought we knew a few things about trade-union corruption," he said, "but we didn't know the half of it, one-tenth of it, or the one-hundredth part of it. We didn't know, for instance, that we had unions where a criminal record was almost a prerequisite to holding office under the national union. We didn't know that we had top trade-union leaders who made it a practice to secretly borrow the funds of their union...
...nearly all food was cheaper-but no matter how it juggled the figures, the Bureau of Labor Statistics came up last week with the sad news that the Government's Consumer Price Index inched upward in September for the 13th month in a row. The new mark was one-tenth of 1% over August, for a record high...