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...Liberal C. D. Howe, a devoted private enterpriser, saw nothing strange in fathering a national airline and a national radio-TV network. When Liberals adopted baby bonuses, old-age pensions, a $100 million Canada Council to encourage culture, Conservatives generally approved. Tory Diefenbaker, in fact, promises higher pensions and fatter farm subsidies...
Since the U.S. economy came through the first quarter full of vigor, expressions of doubt about its health for the rest of 1957 all but disappeared last week. The Department of Commerce reported that personal income reached a record annual rate of $336.7 billion in February, forecast even fatter pay envelopes ahead for the nation's workers. Starting off the seasonal spring rise, employment rose to 63,865,000 to set a record for March. Retail sales were holding firm, and production was expected to hold its record 1956 pace...
...backbone of the U.S. economy is made up of small businesses-they account for some 4,000,000 of the 4,250,000 U.S. firms-Yet small business is in deep trouble. While big businesses are getting bigger and taking a fatter share of the market, small companies are shackled in their attempts to grow by heavy-and often discriminating-taxes. Wrote Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers to President Eisenhower last week, inp eading for the creation of a Cabinet-ranking Secretary of Small Business: "Every single barometer indicates a general worsening of conditions for smaller firms. Time...
Real wages kept a step ahead as Americans piled up heavy overtime pay; the average factory production worker with a wife and two children took home an all-time peak of $76.54 a week, $1.30 more than the month before. Paychecks will grow even fatter. In February alone, hourly wages of some 500,000 U.S. workers in the transport and electrical industries will move up 1¢ to 3¢ under cost-of-living escalators. Warned BLS: "Rising costs and strong aggregate demand will very likely underwrite a continued climb in consumer and wholesale prices...
...clumsy and unpopular. It is a cruel thing to make a child feel ugly and unwanted." Forced to wear heavy spectacles for her myopic eyes, little Maria avoided schoolmates, ate compulsively (sometimes a whole pound of cheese at breakfast). "I hated school, I hated everybody. I got fatter and fatter." But when she was eight, she took up music. She saved money to buy opera librettos, and sang at school. Her mother drove her on, arranged for voice lessons. Maria began to win radio amateur contests. She made an important discovery: "When I sang, I was really loved...