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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fought the lion of British imperialism as a lion," said India's Prime Minister Nehru on his country's eleventh anniversary of independence, "but then came from behind a snake which bit us." The snake was a purely domestic product-internal disunity and, most of all, the constant threat of bankruptcy. Nehru has of late talked a great deal about retirement, and many of his countrymen, sensing a staleness of leadership, have begun to wonder whether he is the one to lead them through the difficulties that lie ahead. For a report on those difficulties and a thoroughgoing...
Though the federal deficit will continue to be large, possibly running to $10-$12 billion next year, it will still represent less than 3% of the gross national product, hardly a harbinger of runaway inflation. The bothersome rise in the wage-price spiral will be slowed by several deflationary factors: widespread overcapacity in basic industries, a squeeze on profit margins, no recurrence of a labor shortage as working-age population rises. What the bank expects is a relatively stable growth pattern over the next five years, with prices rising a modest 1% or 2% each year. Any further acceleration...
...been more often right than wrong: In 1959 the auto industry will sell about 5,500.000 cars (v. an estimated 4,300,000 in '58), which in turn will "start a chain reaction throughout the whole economy. I should expect a further increase in the gross national product in the fourth quarter, and that this improvement would gather momentum through...
...rise in gross national product from $428 billion to $600 billion. ¶ A rise in households from 50 million to 56 million...
White Wilderness (Buena Vista) is the awesome product of three arduous summers and winters spent by eleven Walt Disney photographers in the Canadian and Alaskan far north. Their cameras caught enough to make any naturalist drool with delight. A polar bear plunges into the icy Arctic seas to give vain chase to a frisky seal; cocky bear cubs attack a one-ton walrus and drive him from his perch; a wolverine, nastiest of all far northern beasts, shrugs off the dive-bomb attacks of an osprey to climb a tall tree and devour a fledgling. Most impressive scene...