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The electronic innards of the Census Bureau's Univac computer whirred last week, and out popped an anxiously awaited seven-digit number: the U.S. Government's official mid-March unemployment total. In advance of the announcement this week, the precise figure was guarded like a missile blueprint. But...
Against the wintry backdrop of statistics, President Eisenhower sent to Congress this week a calm reminder of the U.S. economy's strength and a firm prediction of its renewed growth. The President's yearly Economic Report, drafted with the help of his Council of Economic Advisers, reiterated that...
¶ Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas ventured that the Air Force's Atlas ICBM would be operational in two years, but he cast doubt on the value of his prediction by showing painful gaps in his information. Pointing to Defense Department claims that the Atlas program has been...
Yesterday's prediction concided almost exactly with Whipple's forecast made late in October when he said that the satellite would probably fall about a month after the rocket.
After weighing such facts, Prudential Insurance Co. issued its usually accurate annual new-year prediction: 1958 will see a $3 billion dip in capital expenditures, but this will be offset by a rise of $5 billion in state spending and $1 billion in home building. Said President Carrol Shanks: business...