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...Final boost of strength for the coalition was the candidacy of nimble, fast-talking Councilman Charles Shafer, who had been dropped by the Citizens Council, and had quickly switched to the other side. With Shafer leading the coalition bush-beating, the Citizens Association lost five of its eight members on the council, and the city was assured of a new kind of rule. Also assured: the eventual resignation of City Manager L. P. Cookingham, the man who gave Kansas City that clean look...
...week there were signs that Wall Street investors were beginning to tread softly because of the worrisome speculative fervor of recent weeks. The New York Stock Exchange was so concerned at the rush for low-priced stocks that it asked members to discourage uninformed speculation. Brokers themselves started to boost house margin requirements on lists of volatile stocks. Others took to the newspapers with ads warning small stockholders not to try for quick killings. The effect was like a tonic on a market that had seesawed aimlessly for nearly three weeks. At the end of a smart two-day rally...
...gainer from the borrowing was Detroit, which has visions of the balmiest spring selling season in years. Ford's advance orders are so big that it will boost April production 20% to 140,000 Fords, biggest April since 1955. And despite labor troubles, Chrysler surprised everyone by announcing that it was "comfortably in the black" in the first quarter...
...prospective increase in U.S. production in the 1960s is almost as much as the combined current production of Europe's two fastest-growing industrial powers, the Soviet Union and West Germany. In 1960 the effect of increasing defense efforts plus rising capital investment will boost gross national product from $475 billion to an even $500 billion. By 1970, ten years later, U.S. production will have soared to $750 billion for the greatest growth in any decade in U.S. history. To U.S. consumers, the growth will mean $355 billion available in disposable income to spend on goods and services...
...major newspapers to make its case for an "extra billion dollars" in the pockets of 1,250,000 steelworkers. This is money, says the union, that will bring real benefits to the economy. Union Boss Dave McDonald is not so much interested in a hefty wage boost as in fringe benefits, whose cost is less evident. He is likely to emphasize pension terms, better hospitalization and medical plans, more generous unemployment benefits. But the big firecracker that is sure to set up a ringing in management's ears is a share-the-work plan to reduce the dangers...