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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BLOUGH argues that the dollars corporations earn as profits have remained virtually stable for ten years, while wages have more than doubled throughout U.S. industry. In steel alone, employment costs have jumped at the compound rate of 7.9% each year since 1940. The industry still made a profit of 6.3% on its sales last year (an even better 8.7% for U.S. Steel), but Blough argues that profits still fall far short of the cash needed for expansion. U.S. Steel alone had to borrow $600 million in the last five years. As for inflation, Blough considers congressional suggestions of wage...
...will spend $350 million for Japan-made radio and TV sets. Abroad, Japanese radios are being assembled in plants from the Philippines to Egypt. The U.S., which imported 2,300,000 Japanese radios last year, around a quarter of them for reexport, this year is buying at the annual rate of 3,600,000. Japanese manufacturers are not stopping with such consumer products. Three Japanese companies are rushing industrial computers to market, and some are even beginning to show an interest in bidding on U.S. defense contracts...
From the Interstate Commerce Commission last week came a 121-page prescription for restoring the health of the nation's railroads. Rejecting a prognosis by ICC Hearing Examiner Howard Hosmer that if the present rate of passenger-traffic decline continues, Pullman service will end by 1965 and coach service (except for commuters) by 1970, ICC hopefully insisted that railroad passenger service "is, and for the foreseeable future will be, an integral part of our national transportation system and essential for the nation's well-being and defense." But it conceded that if the railroads are to continue...
Swiss bankers publicly condemn such tipsters. Privately, the bankers contribute to the profitable buying fever. They commonly margin buyers at 30% to 40% or even less (the rigid U.S. margin rate: 90%). Their standard excuse for such easy terms is that all but a few listed European companies are so solidly rooted that a bust is unthinkable...
Popular Sport. Most European stocks do look so attractive that throughout the Continent brokerage houses are becoming as popular as coffee houses. In France, where the De Gaulle government recently liberalized imports and devalued the franc to the free-market rate, the general stock index has jumped 24% in 1959. In West