Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bewildered bureaucracy. Police and churches, too, come in for a share of the blame. The work of police youth squads has been criticized by many specialists. Says the Rev. George B. Ford, pastor of the Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church: "There is a failure of the churches to reach out and seize the opportunity which exists. Segregation in the congregation enhances segregation on the streets. We segregate our housing projects by income. We drive out the more successful members, and we end up by encouraging concealment and fraud. No wonder our children are in trouble...
FILTER-TIP SALES, up 42% last year, puffed cigarette industry to record 409.4 billion smokes in 1957 v. previous 394.1 billion high in 1952. Filters grabbed 40% of total market, should reach 45% this year...
...inflation was the advance of 0.4% in food prices, caused mostly by fresh fruit and vegetable shortages after the harsh winter freeze in Florida and the Deep South. Food prices are not likely to head downward, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics, until spring-grown fruits and vegetables reach the market in May or June...
Many cattlemen figure that prices have yet to reach their peak, will continue to nudge up through 1958 at least. In Kansas City cattle brokers last week were ordering calves for fall delivery and fattening for as much as 33? per lb. v. 25? last fall. Cattlemen eventually will have bigger and beefier herds to sell, and prices will then start to soften. But the price-pushing demand for beef will probably continue to outpace supply for a long while. The Agriculture Department figures that beef production will not rise much until the 19605. Reason: it takes about three years...
...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...