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...Industrial products ranging from iron and steel scrap to lumber, cotton, man-made fibers and animal hides rose an average of 2.3% in April, a figure that almost equals the torrid pace set earlier this year. Overall, the wholesale index in the past three months has risen at a compound annual rate of 13.5%, a sure sign that scorching inflation will last at least several more months as wholesale costs push up retail prices...
...dollar's current setback reflects a complex of U.S. economic ills. American inflation is now running at a compound annual rate of 14%, higher than in eight countries of Western Europe, and in the first quarter of 1974, the U.S. output of goods and services fell at an annual rate of 5.8%. That combination of inflation and downturn has upset money traders, who also note that the U.S. trade surplus gave way to a $171 million deficit in March...
Khrushchev did all the dictating at his dacha in the village of Petrovo-Dalneye, 20 miles west of Moscow. His country villa was under the surveillance of secret police stationed in a separate guardhouse at the entrance to the fenced-in compound. The police kept a watchful eye on Khrushchev, but stayed out of the house where he lived with his wife Nina Petrovna. When the weather was good, Khrushchev took his tape recorder outdoors. On many of the tapes there are sounds in the background of birds singing, children playing, and planes coming in to land at a nearby...
...other downbeat indicators: industrial production in March fell for the fourth straight month, and is now 2.8% below its November peak; housing starts last month were 36% below a year earlier. The declines did little to break the grip of inflation. Consumer prices in March shot up at a compound annual rate of 14%. Banks across the country raised their prime rate on business loans to an unprecedented...
Maybe no one understands it. But a large part of the problem is a compound of U.S. intervention and U.S. disinterest--intervention by the government and disinterest on the part of the foreign policy public. While it would be naive to suggest that public indignation could quickly change the direction of U.S. policy, the same efforts towards educating and interesting and shaming the public that were eventually influential in Vietnam are needed in regard to Latin America...