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...gain during the decade. Biggest gainers will be bauxite (up 97.5%), crude oil (up 103%) and iron ore (up 300%). Biggest losers: tin (down 5%), wool (down 10%). Assuming that foreign aid ends, exports will edge up only 1%, but they will all be paid for. U.S. capital outflow will have doubled...
...conductors, the heat cannot easily escape. After millions of years, the temperature rises until a vast blister of hot, expanded rock has formed. If it works its way to the surface, or if cracks appear, the hot rock may liquefy and escape as a volcanic explosion or a quiet outflow of lava...
...first time, a Pentagonian remarked: "He looks like the kind of guy who'd say, 'Lay off 40,000 men.' " Kyes has not yet said, "Lay off 40,000 men," but he did order a cut in Defense Department replacement hiring, with the result that normal outflow has reduced employment by just about...
With such encouragement, the board thought that foreign investment by private enterprise should at least double the present $1 billion-a-year rate. In addition, the board estimated, "two billion dollars energetically and strategically invested over the next few years could swell the outflow of vital materials from the underdeveloped regions by $1 billion a year. This increased production can best be carried out under private auspices...
...Between 1929 and 1938 their combined assets had increased 63.1%. But insurance in force, 92.2 billion, had increased only 9.8%. Among reasons for the striking disparity: increased sales of annuities and use of supplementary contracts (e.g., for paying death benefits by installments) had slowed up the outflow of funds...