Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record 65,699,000 for the month. Unemployment, which usually rises seasonally, dropped by 100,000 to 3,577,000, the lowest level in five months and near the pre-steel-strike level of 4.9% of the working force. As consumers continued to step up spending, December retail sales hit $21.7 billion, bringing sales for all of 1959 to a record high of $215.6 billion, about 8% above 1958. Private housing starts picked up to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,310,000 v. 1,210,000 for the month before. The jump raised starts...