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...economy was surging ahead far faster than the Government had anticipated in January. Unemployment was down to a twelve-year low of 3.7%, and there were already serious shortages of construction workers, machinists and technicians. With factories operating at more than 90% of capacity, industrialists were planning to plow $60.2 billion into new equipment, $2.4 billion above Washington's estimates, further straining overextended credit lines and labor pools...
...Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General William I. Cowin urged the court to view Fanny as an obscene "narration by a prostitute of the particulars of her trade"-a nonstop romp through 50 acts of sexual inter course, or one every 51 pages. Whatever experts say, Cowin insisted, the Justices must plow through Fanny themselves. "I know it's a dreary chore," he said. Worse than that, fretted Justice Hugo Black, as he asked "how the court is going to do all this censorship and do anything else...
...Handshoe Hollow who have enrolled in a federal make-work project known in the mountains of eastern Kentucky as the Happy Pappies. As they demonstrated the blessings of the poverty program, other local residents-mostly the pappies' wives and small children-harvested potatoes behind a mule-drawn plow on Will Handshoe's land beside Upper Quicksand Creek. Will, 72, who is distant kin to Floyd and unchallenged patriarch of the valley, had foresightedly taken the day off to go squirrel hunting...
...undrinkable. A sinewy little beef filet goes for $10 at the official exchange rate, and red snapper for $4.50 a plate. "It's Stalin-style economics carried to the ultimate," says one foreign visitor. "If you can strip the consumer economy of its buying power, then you can plow your resources into heavy machinery and infrastructure...
...done by the big professionals, notably brokerage firms dealing for their own accounts. They both bought and sold, and the net effect was a standoff. There was a lot of switching, as traders sold such recent high flyers as Xerox and Fairchild Camera to get profits that they could plow into stocks that they felt were good bargains. Large institutions - insurance companies, mutual funds and pension funds - were also active, as evidenced by the great blocks of stock that changed hands: 17,200 shares of Chrysler; 53,000 shares of Cleveland-Cliffs Iron, 80,000 shares of Sperry Rand...