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...paycheck was heftier than ever before. All this added up to a gross national product of $584 billion-a very respectable $29 billion more than last year. As 1963 ended, the U.S. economy was in the 34th month of recovery, and only a few months away from producing the longest sustained peacetime recovery since World War II. Few doubted that that record, too, would shortly be shattered...
...through the East and Midwest. A few days later, the Interstate Commerce Commission approved plans for the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Railroad, long fierce rivals, to join. The 12,300-mile linkup, stretching through the Southeast from Florida to Virginia, will make the new road the second longest in the U.S. (after the Santa Fe's 12,900 miles...
Johnson turned slowly, strode away from the cluster of friends, walked toward a bank of microphones. It must have seemed the loneliest, longest walk of his life. Motioning Lady Bird to his side, Johnson spoke publicly for the first time as President, expressed his feelings simply...
...After reviewing New Frontier accomplishments, Kennedy launched into an impassioned plea for the tax bill's immediate enactment-something that he had despaired of the day before. With prompt passage of the tax bill, he said, "we will be sailing by next April on the, winds of the longest and strongest'' peacetime expansion in our nation's economic history...
...street cruisers-because of their king size. Last week in Manhattan, Germany's Daimler-Benz showed off a new auto that is not just cruiser size but more like a battleship. Spanning 20½ ft. from stem to stern, The Grand Mercedes 600 is the world's longest auto. It is also one of the lowest: less than 5 ft. high, it has the low-slung lines of a dachshund. Boasting all the latest engineering innovations (disk brakes, adjustable pneumatic suspension system, fuel-injection 300-h.p. engine), the 600 seats eight, including two on rear-facing armchairs...