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...December. Last week, as a starter, he presented a new economic plan aimed at wooing voters back into the Gaullist camp before the upcoming parliamentary elections take place. The plan promised a 10% tax credit on capital spending for business, an easing of credit and price controls, a $20-per-year hike in old-age pensions, a 2.12% boost in France's minimum wage and subsidies for slum clearance and agricultural development...
Liquefying Ammonia. To keep earnings of chemical products increasing at their current 25% -per-year rate, Grace has been busy building new plants and expanding older ones. The company is enlarging the capacity of an $85 million ammonia-plant complex in Trinidad, has just opened an $8,000,000 phosphate plant in Bayonne, France, which it will supply from one of the world's richest rock-phosphate mines, jointly owned by Grace and French interests in the African Republic of Togo. In the U.S., Grace is completing a factory near Buffalo for reprocessing nuclear fuel. In the Midwest...
Free ice water? Yes. Cubes? They'll cost you. Will the Conrad Hilton cash a check if you have an $8-per-year Carte Blanche card? Yes, for 10? per. What hasn't he thought of? Pay toilets in the guest rooms...
...present long-term 3.2%-per-year rate of growth will possess the potential in manpower and technology to raise the nation's standard of living close to 25% during the next decade. So the Labor Department predicted this week in a major new study of U.S. manpower. The nation can also increase the production of goods and services at least 45% to a gross national product of $731.7 billion (see chart) and may reach $750 billion. But achieving a three-quarters of a trillion dollar economy by 1970, said Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell, hinges on the nation...
...legislation and legislators he belabored had no desire to change labor's hard-won basic rights. Today's miner, at $24.25 per diem, could hardly be called downtrodden. (Nor could John L. Lewis, still the $50,000-per-year U.M.W. president and a power in the National Bank of Washington as well.) The concern of Congress and of the U.S. in 1959 is the gangsterism and brutality that infest the unions and threaten the working man. With oratory and belligerence out of the past, John L. Lewis was fighting for a cause already won, defending a crime against...