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...Alkmim's policy of holding coffee off the market to exact higher prices succeeded mostly in giving the market to other coffee-producing countries, but it had great chauvinistic appeal to the powerful leftist nationalists. Lopes, 47, believes that heavy investment of foreign private capital is needed to boost per capita income. At the present rate of production growth, he says, "it would take slightly more than 20 years to reach the $400 per capita income level...
...sleek, white bottom was fouled with assorted marine growth. Like the aspiring U.S. cup defenders, she was protected by hard, slippery synthetic paints, not with antifouling compounds such as coated Evaine's undersides. When clean, the enamel-like finish on Sceptre could be counted on to boost her speed...
...sales in the second ten days of June posted a 6.8% increase in daily rate over the first ten days, and last week's production was up 9.6%. Ford Motor Co. returned to full-scale production, while Chrysler Corp. scored a 13% production boost in June. Yet even as the wheels rolled a bit faster, the industry got set for the annual model changeover shutdown. Buick production was stopped last week for approximately six weeks; Chrysler will start shutting down late this month, Plymouth in early August and Ford in September...
...high of $1,357,000,000. Just after the bonds came out, they hit 100½. But by last week the bonds had skidded a full point to 99½, due largely to rumors that the Federal Reserve Board was ready to reimpose a tight-money policy, which would boost other interest rates and make the 2⅝% Governments unattractive. In a panic, the free riders unloaded...
...Government is against any such price boost, arguing that the main gainers would be large gold holders-the U.S., France, West Germany, Switzerland-while the losers would be the underdeveloped nations of the Middle East and Asia, which have enough trouble as it is earning hard currencies to buy gold...