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Commented France's respected newsletter, Index Quotidien: "The Fifth Republic seems to have reached the critical stage of disenchantment and trial...
...beef and pork supplies to wartime rationed levels and put two million people out of work. He added that Democratic farm proposals would drive a million people "now engaged in serving the needs of farm people" into unemployment, would encourage Soviet agricultural supremacy, and would raise the consumer price index by six per cent...
...gross national product, all of which behaved well for the first six months, have suffered setbacks. Gross national product is not expected to show any increase in the third quarter. Unemployment has not dropped, nor total employment risen in line with seasonal expectations. The Federal Reserve Board's Index of Industrial Production has reversed its upward direction, was down one point in August...
...Gloomy Indexes. There was little cheer last week at the latest figures of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Diffusion Index. This is a compilation of eight indicators that include new orders for durable goods, average work week, building awards, Dow-Jones industrials, and new incorporations. The index has often forecast downturns in the past. If an equal number of the eight indicators are rising or falling, the index stands at 50; if more fall than rise, the index dips proportionately below 50. In June the index turned sharply downward, fell well below 50. The bureau...
With the completion of his naval history-a 15th volume, containing only an index and technical data, is due next year -Boston's Samuel Eliot Morison takes his place in the line of classic narrators of the American past-James F. Rhodes, John B. McMaster, George Bancroft and Edward Channing. Right after Pearl Harbor, Morison, Harvard professor of history and Pulitzer prizewinning biographer of Columbus (Admiral of the Ocean Sea), proposed to his friend Franklin Roosevelt the idea of a "full, accurate and early" history of the naval war and got the assignment himself along with a commission...