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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although industrial output has increased 230% in Russia since 1940, agricultural production has risen only...
Love That Oil. What with customs duties, high profits and low farm output, Caracas prices† average twice as high as Manhattan's, but oil keeps the money moving; the buying power of Customer Juan Bimba (Mr. Average Venezuelan) has risen 63% in eight years. The country is the U.S.'s fourth biggest cash customer (after Canada, Mexico and Cuba), taking everything from steel beams to baked beans...
...Marks for Old. Not all the outward plenty has spread to the German people. Since the war, 200 new millionaires have risen up; but 10 million Germans are desperately poor. Two million new dwelling units have been built since 1945, but 4,000,000 more are needed...
...with 13 plants scattered across the U.S., Canada and England, now makes or distributes everything from colored bathroom fixtures, which it was the first (1928) to pioneer, to diffusion valves for atomic-bomb plants, from air-conditioning units to radiant heaters. Since Holloway became president in 1946, sales have risen four times over the prewar level to 1951's record $322.9 million and a $16 million net after taxes. Last year sales dropped off slightly to $319 million, and higher break-even costs cut the net to $9,800,000. But President Holloway is banking on wonder metal titanium...
...quarter of the U.S. population is on a diet; 2) the first thing dieters are likely to give up is milk products. Per capita consumption of whole milk and butter has dropped 19% since the war. But consumption of low-calorie skim milk and nonfat dry milk has risen as much as 136%. To fight the diet menace, the dairy farmers will spend between $6 million and $10 million in the next year, touting milk as the "ideal food" around which to build a reducing diet...