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...business upturn last week came the first signs of a turn-around in the Kennedy Administration's economic policies. To give the economy a quick boost, the Administration had considered throwing its support behind a bill sponsored by Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph Clark to provide state and local governments with $500 million in federal grants for such projects as repairing roads and sewers, building schools and libraries. Chief advocate of the bill inside the Administration was Presidential Economic Adviser Heller. But Heller's enthusiasm has been countered by Treasury Secretary Dillon's argument that with...
...permanently negative. Dr. Arthur Burns, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in Eisenhower's first term, believes that "most of the unemployment is a cyclical problem," and expects unemployment to drop to 4% ("virtually full employment") within 15 to 18 months if the economy makes a good upturn. Kennedy's chief economic adviser, Dr. Walter Heller, agrees with Burns that the present high rate of unemployment is primarily a result of poor business-though, unlike Burns, he believes it will be necessary to use Government stimulants to get the economy growing fast enough to solve the unemployment...
...most economic indicators gave some weight to the economists' projection. Auto sales in April climbed 3% from March (though they were still 17% under April 1960), and car production reached a new high for the year. Iron Age, the magazine of the steel industry, reported that a strong upturn in the steel market is making it more difficult for customers to get delivery on rush orders. Confirming an earlier Commerce Department report, a new McGraw-Hill survey shows that industry's capital spending plans for 1961 have been revised upward a bit since last fall. Even unemployment...
...first-quarter earnings reported that they had already begun to shake off the slump. As the first major steelmaker to report, Republic Steel foretold improving industry conditions. Though per share earnings fell to 37? from $1.80 last year, Republic's President T. F. Patton said that "an encouraging upturn in orders and shipments developed in March and is continuing...
...annual meeting last week. Despite the majority of proxies safely in his pocket, Colbert knew that he was in for a rough day from a hard core of dissident minority stockholders. Chrysler's first quarter shipments in 1961 were down 57% from last year, with no great upturn forecast for the second quarter. To cut costs, nearly 7,000 salaried workers had been fired. "If we had been able to combine our progress in cost reduction with a comparable improvement in sales." sighed Colbert, "we would have a highly satisfactory report...