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...from 1951 to 1956, when the gross national product bounded from $329 billion to $414.7 billion, wholesale prices increased only 1½% over the whole period, a remarkable stability indicating that "normal" inflation need not run away with prosperity. And whatever inflation the U.S. has had has been offset for most people by a steady rise in income...
...earth is moving around its orbit (see chart). His ship must have a speed of only 870 m.p.h. over escape velocity. The excess speed is added to the earth's orbital speed (66,600 m.p.h.) that the spaceship had before it was launched. This is enough to offset the sun's gravitational pull, allows the ship to swing outward in an ellipse. If the timing is right, it makes a rendezvous with Mars on its orbit...
Some soft spots remained. Detroit, with a Chrysler strike piled on top of layoffs, about held its own with 1957 sales. The spots were more than offset. Atlanta registered sales 4% above 1957 (which merchants said was "incredible." because 1957 was 8% better than 1956). The biggest surprise of all was in New York. With the nine major newspapers shut down by a strike (see PRESS), department stores lost some mail- and phone-order business, and total sales were below anticipation, but they set new records. Said one top store executive: "It was wonderful...
...copper output was raised 36%, with Kennecott mines going on a seven-day week to meet the growing recovery demand and offset the shortage caused by strikes in U.S., Rhodesia, Canada. The price rose to a 20-month high of 31.3? on the London market...
...fragile and opulent as an Edwardian conservatory filled with orchids, and still face the time when the glass broke in 1914 and the killing four-year frost came in. Her personal story is romantic enough to make Ouida-lady laureate of the plush paradise-blush for modesty. It is offset by the tough self-knowledge of an aristocracy that called a pretty fast tune but was prepared to pay a stiff price for the piper. One-fourth of the book is occupied by the war diaries and letters of Alfred Duff Cooper, an infantry officer in France. After censoring...