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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unless the world-wide birth rate is sufficiently cut within 50 years, "hungry and crowded people will rise in bestial strife," Dr. John Rock '15, Clinical Professor of Gynaecology, Emeritus, predicted on Wednesday...
...speech at Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City, Dr. Rock emphasized as axiomatic that the birth rate must be cut immediately. The great problem, Rock said, is to find an effective, humane, and universal means of contraception...
...slump in U.S. foreign trade during the first half of 1958 now appears to be leveling off, reported the Commerce Department. Trade with Latin America may be headed for the highest rate of any year except...
...Federal Reserve Board last week approved a discount-rate hike from 2% to 2½% for five of its district banks, but for reasons that had little to do with the threat of inflation. The hike was not designed to tighten credit, explained the Fed, but to bring the central bank rate in line with other short-term rates. Reason: the average yield on Treasury bills has been running three-quarters of 1% above the Fed's 2% discount rate, making it possible for commercial banks to borrow from the Fed at 2% and invest in Treasury bills that...
Granite City is fortunate in its location and its customers. Chiefly a producer of flat-rolled steel products for everything from cans to cars, it is the biggest steelmaker in the St. Louis area, enjoys favorable barge and rail rates to the booming South and Southwest. Furthermore, it has no single customer who takes as much as 10% of its output. Granite City owes its prosperity even more to a forward-looking $33 million expansion program that has already hiked its capacity 47% and slashed the per-ton cost of annual ingot capacity. Now producing at an annual rate...