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Thus Zipf interprets U.S. history (see chart). Though its parts were in equilibrium, the new-formed Union in 1790 was as a whole unbalanced. Economic forces imperceptibly demanded population shifts, obscured somewhat by a century of expanding frontiers. The trend toward equilibrium is clear except for the period of about a century ago. The worsening equilibriums of 1840 (see chart), 1850 and 1860 reveal the underlying struggle between the concept of federation (homogeneity) and of the sovereign parts...
Last week, as the May Federal Reserve production index hit a new all-time high (see chart), a young OPMite named Peter R. Nehemkis Jr.* predicted that one-third of U.S. industry might be soon shut down for lack of business. Because of defense priorities, he said, ten industries are already facing eclipse. Chief victims, moreover, would be little businessmen. "It is one of the profound ironies of our defense effort that its total effect may well be to obliterate smaller enterprises...
Defying laws of supply & demand, coffee has been moving up on all fronts at once: stocks, imports and price (see chart). So Leon Henderson called to his deskside the men who live by coffee. He knew that a number of leading operators had been wisely stocking up, while small fry, caught short, bid up the price. He proposed a Government inventory of all coffee, and even asked the big fellows to release stocks and correct the maldistribution. The meeting was unwieldy, and broke up with little done. Henderson's next step would normally be to fix all coffee prices...
...power shortage ever since 1934, he remarked: "Power shortages estimated by public bodies have generally been at a time in the future so distant that they have been eliminated by new construction before the time arrived." E.E.I, foresaw an increase of installed capacity to 48,000,000 kilowatts (cf. chart...
...ties of gold and blood," that the Empire is "the greatest graft on earth, the juiciest melon that was ever cut." Since the British aristocracy has long prided itself on providing Britain with leaders the book has no great trouble in elaborating on this theme, adding even a genealogical chart...