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Though nobody really knows if credit has reached a peril point, there are some disturbing signals. Private debt lately has been increasing at a somewhat faster rate than the nation's gross national product, personal income or personal savings. The number of businessmen who fell into bankruptcy last year...
The Red invasion of South Korea that year forced an abrupt about-face in U.S. policy. Aid and arms were poured into the beleaguered island so that it might withstand invasion, rebuild and modernize its economy, develop foreign trade. The U.S. has since funneled $2.7 billion in military aid to...
* Beatrix inherited $4,000,000 from her maternal grandmother, Queen Wilhelmina, receives $83,000 a year in state salary (it will be doubled when she marries), will eventually inherit the rest of Wilhelmina's wealth, estimated at well over $100 million.
By any judgment, Litchfield made Pitt a more respected school-to the point that many Pittsburgh-area residents criticize it as too choosy about whom it will admit, and too costly: tuition has nearly tripled, from $537 in 1954 to $1,400 now. When Litchfield arrived, Pitt had 561 full...
The Japanese stake in Africa is still modest-only $7,000,000 in direct investments-and its sales to Africa of $608 million last year accounted for only 9% of Japan's total exports. Nevertheless, by combining courteous persistence, cut-rate prices, fat markups for local dealers and fast...