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C.I.T. Financial Corp.'s President Arthur O. Dietz predicted that the growing U.S. population and the move to the suburbs will spark demands for more construction, more autos, more appliances. Said he: The current record level is no plateau, but a step in a long rise that will continue through...
Arlington was originally part of a 1,100-acre estate that John Parke Custis, Martha Washington's son, purchased in 1778. His son, George Washington Parke Custis, built Arlington House (now a yellowing museum in the midst of the cemetery), modeled after a Greek temple, on a plateau overlooking the Potomac River. The estate was inherited by Mrs. Robert E. Lee, Custis' daughter, and was the Lee home until Cavalry Colonel Lee resigned his commission in the U.S. Army and went off to Richmond on April 22, 1861 to take his place as a general officer...
...beasts and birds can benefit from them. A cow that is vaccinated in the dry phase with preparations of killed bacteria, will produce colostrum* with 120 times the antibody concentration found in blood. The level falls from these peaks within a few days, but stays on a relatively high plateau for months...
...Ernest R. Breech told the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce last week. "The big boom we have all been anticipating for the early 1960's is no longer a distant dream. We have no choice but to prepare for a major breakthrough into a new and much higher plateau of production and consumption...
...poised on a high plateau with neither the threat of inflation nor of recession . . . ever very distant." Thus Arthur F. Burns, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, describes the economic state of the nation. In this situation, Burns told the New York State Chamber of Commerce: "We must be alert to changes in economic conditions. The only rigidity that we can afford is the principle that the best way to fight a recession is to prevent...