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...support of their forecast, the Administration advocates invoked statistics -conveniently issued by the Commerce Department last week-showing a $9 billion (to $627.1 billion) increase in Americans' personal income during June and July. The tax boost, they argued, would cost three out of four families between $2.50 and $9.25 a month, while the fourth, earning more than $10,000 a year, would pay more...
Last week's catastrophe came without warning. The outside world's first indications were jiggles recorded on Russian seismographs after the destruction had started. Could the quake have been forecast...
Today Danone controls 60% of the yogurt market in Paris, and 40% in all of France. Now, with 1967 sales forecast at $56 million, up from $9,000,000 only seven years ago, Danone has announced plans to merge with Gervais, fourth largest cheesemaker in France. The new corporation will be the largest French company engaged exclusively in the food business...
Back in March, the London Economist forecast an Arab-Israeli explosion...
Ackley, testifying before the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, conceded that the economy in the first half of 1967 had performed "more sluggishly than we anticipated" and "is not advancing too rapidly today." Still, he forecast a hot second half. Said he: "A strong revival of demand is on the way -one that will produce either unacceptable inflationary pressures or a return to tight money, or more probably both, by early next year at the latest." Only a 1967 tax increase, by Ackley's recipe, will forestall such a future. Yet he an- noyed the committee members by refusing...