Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the "dominant supplier" authority, the President would be given the power to reduce tariffs on any product in the standard industrial trade category. The tariff could be removed entirely if the U.S. and the Common Market together produce 80 per cent of a given product, Cleveland explained...
During that period, employee compensation jumped from $154.2 billion to $302.9 billion, corporate taxes from $17.9 billion to $22.8 billion, and the gross national product from $366.5 billion to $521.3 billion. And last year. Blough said, U.S. Steel's profits fell from 8.2% of sales...
...never saw anything like it," said the Wall Street Journal, still in deep shock. "One of the country's steel companies announced it was going to try to get more money for its product. And promptly all hell busted loose. Mr. Kennedy had his victory. The President himself said all the people of the United States should be gratified. Around him there was joy unrestrained at this proof positive of how naked political power, ruthlessly used, could smash any private citizen who got in its way. If we had not seen it with our eyes and heard it with...
Since 1947, corporate profits after taxes have slipped from 7.84% of the gross national product to 4.47% last year. The profit squeeze has become particularly acute in the past four years, during which weak consumer demand and Government policy have kept retail prices relatively stable, thus halting the price inflation. But cost inflation, which hits industry through rising labor and overhead costs, has not been stopped. If industry cannot offset higher costs with higher prices. Wall Street sees even slimmer profit margins in the long run. And since stock prices in the end reflect the profit potential of industry, some...
...speeches and book introductions-the sort of collection that writers publish when they haven't written anything), he makes most of the familiar complaints. The intellectual is homeless; the poet is campus-bound; today's grammar-school education is flaccid; the American is merely a well-trained product buyer who knows, when in Weimar, "how to buy a Weimaraner." JarrelFs lectern jokes are rather good ("People who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks"), but his lamentations over the mass culture seem conventional and perfunctory, the kind of thing one serves...