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...blue-collar workers as it becomes more efficient. A 4% rate of rise in productivity means that the U.S. will have to create 2,400,000 jobs every year just to keep unemployment from climbing above the current high level of 5.7% of the work force. If the productivity spurt continues, factory production will double in the next 20 years without creating any new jobs. Some U.S. economic policymakers have characteristically begun to argue that the job of making jobs will require not only a cut in taxes but a boost in Government spending as well...
...would he do? Now he was rolling right and fading back as if to pass. He slithered away from one tackier, straight-armed another. Downfield, three receivers zigged, zagged, looked back, zigged again. Back and forth he dodged, now trapped, now loose. But there was no pass. In a spurt of swivel-hipped speed, he dashed forward. Five yards, ten, past the line of scrimmage, and on to a first down...
After a summer that most vacationers would rather forget (see THE WORLD), Europe approached the serious business of fall with high hopes and busy schedules. September marks the end of the somnolent holiday season, the beginning of a new spurt of business and the return to work of the managers who make Europe's industry run. In 1963, it also marks a decisive time for the unique and historic union that is Europe's Common Market. The remarkable fact about the Market, eight months after Charles de Gaulle abruptly barred Britain from membership, is that, in a triumph...
...consumer's spending spurt encompasses appliances, food, apparel and general merchandise, but shows up most dramatically in auto sales. Though sales sagged slightly from a year ago during the first ten days of this month, Detroit is headed for a 7,500,000-car year that will break 1955's alltime record. The automakers' main worry, in fact, is that dealers will run out of stock before the 1964 models appear. Production of all 1963 models has just about stopped, and the inventory on hand at the beginning of the month was enough for only 44 more...
...techniques that have made Leyland Britain's biggest truckmaker and the world's largest exporter of heavy commercial vehicles. So far this year, the company's exports are running a remarkable 80% above last year. It ranks high among the firms contributing to a remarkable spurt in British exports, which rose to a record $966 million in June and are 6% above last year for 1963's first half...