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...past dozen weeks, shopkeepers and economic policymakers have pondered a $9 billion question: What would consumers do with their new tax savings? Some businessmen wondered whether the extra $4-a-week in the average paycheck would really bolster their sales by much. Others worried that consumers might go on a spending binge, which could turn the orderly economic expansion into an "overheated boom" followed by an inevitable day of reckoning. Last week it became clear that consumers are indeed in creasing their spending, apparently just enough to give the economy a nice lift without producing too much heat...
Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., who depends on his personal impressions of the economy almost as much as on all the statistics, was surprised at how much the tax cut increased his own paycheck* and figured that other people will be just as pleasantly surprised. A quick check with department store executives in Los Angeles, Dallas, Cleveland and Detroit convinced him last week that sales are in for a substantial lift...
...Martin, who earns $20,500 a year, collected $30 more on his biweekly paycheck...
...American Newspaper Guild to force it to recover strike-benefit payments. Rogoish argues that the Guild did not call the strike (it was led by typographers), and thus had no right to authorize strike benefits for idled Guildsmen-or to make him help support them with deductions from his paycheck. - Even though current contracts do not expire until March 1965, New York's Mayor Robert Wagner exhorted both publishers and union leaders to get together next week in an effort to avert another disastrous strike. The mayor's impatience was understandable. He has been vainly seeking to arrange...
...version $11.2 billion. Salary withholding rates would drop from the present 18% to 14% promptly after the President signs the bill. The 14% withholding rate would mean, for example, that an employee who makes $200 a week and claims four exemptions would have $20.80 a week withheld from his paycheck-a drop of $6 from the present amount...