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...bridegroom's party and followed by Fatma's friends, the divided village began to sing and dance and clap hands. "Why don't you have the feast on our side?'' shouted one Jordanian. "We have more meat." Replied an Israeli Arab: "Our chickens are fatter...
...year) than ever before; e.g., more than 18 million new cars were sold in the past three years. Retail sales are running at the rate of $16.6 billion a year, 23% higher than the 1952 level (see The Luxury Market). But savings are also climbing. Individual savings accounts grew fatter by $5 billion in first-quarter 1956, the fastest rate of gain since the Korean war. The gross national product, sum of all goods and services produced in the U.S., was barreling along at the annual rate of $408 billion in June, seems certain to top the $400 billion mark...
...population of Texas went up 58%, the number of city Negroes quadrupled in the state. They are also getting better jobs. In 1940, only 2.9% of Houston's Negroes were in the professions; today the figure is 5.2%, of which almost half are teachers. Another factor in the fatter paycheck has been the lessening of barriers to better jobs. Bullock checked 736 Texas manufacturing firms, found eight of them now employ Negro chemists, nine have Negro engineers...
Atomic Ship. The shipping industry is already responding to the supertanker success formula: the bigger and faster the ship, the fatter the profit. Aided by the biggest shipping subsidies in peacetime history, long-hungry U.S. shipyards are taking on more and more supership orders, and expect volume to increase. The Maritime Administration estimates that "block obsolescence" of war-built...
...consumer is obviously not worrying about a slump. With more employment and fatter paychecks, consumers from coast to coast had money enough to pay off installment loans on what they had bought in 1955-and then buy still more. The sales increases were not all spectacular. Nor were they evident in every line or city. But they did show the overall pattern of slow, steady growth. Buyers in 1954 and 1955 had concentrated on hard goods-autos, furniture, refrigerators, etc.; now they are concentrating on clothes and small appliances, and spending more for food, entertainment and other nondurables...