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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plant-expansion slowdown and the consequent cut in spending: $3 billion. ¶ Inventory buying, accelerating at the rate of $3 billion annually, turned completely around in October and was decreasing at a lightning-fast $7 billion rate in January as businessmen lived off their warehouse stocks. Cut in demand: $10 billion. ¶ Total cut in spending rates: $21 billion...
...industry needs a big pickup in sales before it can step up production again. While automakers have just about given up hope of turning out the 5,500,000 cars they once expected (TIME, Dec. 30), they still hope to do far better than the 4,500,000 current rate, thus feel they have no place...
Like other corporations, the steel companies have their eyes on the steady expansion of markets not only by finding new uses for their products but because of the population increase. New households are being formed at the rate of 800,000 a year. In the 1960's, the increase will jump above 1,000,000 as the war babies reach marriageable...
...giving the taxpayer in the $5,000-a-year-and-under bracket (the biggest group) as much as $1.60 a week more in his pay envelope. Loss in Government revenues: $4 billion. ¶ Corporations can look forward to a corporate rate reduction from 52% to 50%. Government loss: $1 billion. ¶ Excise taxes, which have outlived their wartime purpose to discourage use of scarce material and transportation, are certain to be slashed. Likely targets: the manufacturers' auto excise tax, which adds $150-$200 to the cost of an auto (manufacturers say they will pass on the savings...
...Canada, Ltd. Currently, British demand is drastically down, and Alcan's British market has dropped from 205,000 tons in 1956 to 153,000 tons last year. At the same time, Russian aluminum exports to Britain have soared from 197 tons in 1956 to an annual rate of 23,000 tons. Reason: Red aluminum sells for $510 a ton v. the Canadian price...