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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other signs that U.S. industry, despite the soft spots in numerous lines, was holding steady. In October, reported the Federal Reserve Board last week, an -upturn in the output of durable goods had sent its index of industrial production up three points to a new peacetime record of 195. Although the Bureau of Labor Statistics found "unexpected declines" in employment in consumer goods industries, total non-farm employment had hit a record 46 million in October, 1,200,000 higher than a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Steady | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...Upturn. Industrial prices were still edging upward. International Harvester boosted prices of its farm tractors 9% and Philco Corp. raised its radio prices 2.5%, even though the radio market was swamped with sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Small Notch | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...large number of applications pouring into seminaries and theological schools from servicemen" as "one of the war's most striking aftermaths." But the American Association of Theological Schools found no change in overall enrollments, and ten of twelve leading seminaries queried by TIME reported last week no significant upturn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ministers in Foxholes? | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...campaign is prompted in part by a 1944 upturn in the T.B. death rate, the first in decades. Last month Congress authorized a new Tuberculosis Control Division with $10,000,000 for its first year. Its chief is a Minnesotan, Dr. Herman Ertresvaag Hilleboe, 38, a stocky, energetic T.B. fighter for eleven years. He is the Navy's chief T.B. consultant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Photographic Reconnaissance | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...budgets are balanced over the period of the business cycle, cannot some deficit financing be risked to bring about a business upturn at the bottom of the cycle? To such a hypothetical question, Mr. Flynn would probably answer: Yes, the Swedes know how to spend on the downbeat and how to tax and pay off deadweight debt on the upbeat. But the U.S., like pre-fascist Italy and pre-Hitler Germany, seems bent on spending all the time. Mr. Flynn seems to imply that we just haven't got the brains of the Swedes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Brains? | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

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