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This Committee, installed in spacious headquarters on the third floor of Pyne Administration Building, had on the walls of one of its rooms a huge chart, tracing the status of each sophomore with each club. A glance at this chart could tell the Committee who was "in trouble," who was not likely to receive a bid, and for these unfortunates the Committee performed near-miraculous service...
...many another sign of steady recovery. The number of workers drawing unemployment compensation dropped, as did new claims for jobless pay. Department store sales ran 5% above the year-ago level. January auto production, geared closely to sales, moved 11% higher than last year's rate (see chart). American Motors was selling three times as many Ramblers as it did in January 1958. Studebaker-Packard was also outselling last year 3 to 1, due almost entirely to its fast-moving little Lark. The company had already outproduced its 1958 total of 49,770 and made...
Since then, as the gross national product has grown from $10 billion to $430 billion, prices have increased at a modest rate -an average of 2⅓% a year (see chart-). From 1897 to just before World War I, the average rate of increase each year was 2½% as the nation went through a period of peacetime prosperity. Yet from 1951 to 1956, when the gross national product bounded from $329 billion to $414.7 billion, wholesale prices increased only 1½% over the whole period, a remarkable stability indicating that "normal" inflation need not run away with prosperity...
...Kent cigarettes to cut down tar and nicotine and -as he says in the kind of phrase that sounds snappy around a boardroom table -give smokers "less of the things they have been smoking filters to get less of." Result, in the statistics that look wonderful on a boardroom chart: Kent's domestic sales zipped from 3.4 billion to 36 billion a year; Lorillard's stock went from 15⅛ to 89; Lorillard sales jumped from $203 million to close to $480 million in 1958; net income rose from $4,519,758 to an estimated $28.5 million...
...recession, U.S. prices rose only 1½% for four quarters; in that time both constant-dollar and current-dollar G.N.P. climbed sharply. For the next eight quarters, from mid-1955 to mid-1957, prices jumped around 6%; in that time the constant-dollar G.N.P. leveled off (see chart). The economy was barely expanding at all, though the current-dollar G.N.P. soared to a new high. When the downturn came in mid-1957, prices went on rising. Result: the current-dollar G.N.P. fell off only 4½%, the constantdollar G.N.P. 5½%. Since the upturn in mid-1958, Commerce said, recovery...