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...thirds of all the nation's major industrial areas, and the highest such total on record. In the 1958 recession the peak was only 89 areas. The Labor Department also announced that the consumer price index, which dropped in January for the first time in 13 months, rose one-tenth of 1% in February to return to December's alltime high of 127.5% of the 1947-49 average...
...score with Dartmouth's Charlie Brown, who upset him last year. Hunter was ahead at the turn, and won by an easily discernible margin, something that doesn't often happen in the fifty. His time tied the meet mark (shared by Brown and Amherst's Robert Keiter) and knocked one-tenth of a second off the pool record set by the great Dick Cleveland...
...such programs will train only one-tenth of the craftsmen needed for the '60s. The Government supervised widespread apprentice programs right after World War II, but enrollment has dwindled from...
...cattle town of 12,000, reported that 20.3% of its work force was job hunting. After the second best year in automotive history, Detroit was anxiously eying a growing backlog of unsold compacts in showrooms and on snow-packed car lots. The cost of living edged upward by one-tenth of 1% in December, bringing it to a record high. The stock market was strong but erratic: rails drooped badly even while American Telephone & Telegraph shares reached an alltime peak...
Through previous centuries, eating changed by nearly imperceptible degrees, and mostly toward just getting enough. Now big forces buffet food. For the first time in history, the U.S. has produced a society in which less than one-tenth of the people turn out so much food that the Government's most embarrassing problem is how to dispose inconspicuously of 100 million tons of surplus farm produce. In this same society, the plain citizen can with an average of only one-fifth his income buy more calories than he can consume. Refrigeration, automated processing and packaging conspire to defy season...