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...that, the price increases have been scattered and without any ominous pattern. Some industries, such as chemicals, have had to rescind price increases because the market would not bear them. Though increases outnumber decreases, there have also been numerous price declines, for example in fuel, lumber, industrial pumps, electrical circuits, color TV sets. The wholesale price index, though an imperfect indicator, has stayed flat for many months. The more sensitive index developed by the National Bureau of Economic Research has been rising, and the consumer price index has been rising steadily too - but at a pace that economists consider normal...
Telltale evidence against Woodward was produced by neutron activation analysis (N.A.A.), which subjects specimens under study to irradiation with neutrons in a nuclear reactor. The fine details of the specimens' chemical composition can then be deduced from the pattern of radiation they give off. So sensitive is the technique that it can detect a thimbleful of poison dissolved in ten tank cars of water...
This year, for the first time in the current expansion, the consumer is in creasing purchases of such nondurables as clothing, shoes, jewelry and cosmetics, is spending $175.7 billion on such items. This follows a classic economic pattern. First came heavier spending on automobiles and other durables, along with an increase in money paid out for services. Now the shift toward nondurables is being accompanied by a rise in comfort-making durables or services: air-conditioner sales are up 40% this summer; people are spending more for summer camps and club memberships, pianos and hi-fi sets, and there...
...toothpaste pattern now shapes up something like this: from 12% of the market four years ago, fluorides have grown to 35% of total toothpaste sales in the U.S., and the percentage seems sure to rise further. Crest still dominates the market, with 30% of all toothpaste sales. Far behind trails Lever Brothers' Pepsodent Fluoride, as well as Colgate's and Bristol-Myers' other fluoride brands - all of which total about 5% of the market. The A.D.A. endorsement is bound to help Colgate's new brand. But almost unnoticed last week was the fact that the A.D.A...
...more than he speaks, is the only person in the cast except Kerr who does much with his movement and his eyes. David Mills is also clearly trying to do something with John of Gaunt. Sometimes he talks angrily, sometimes wearily, but I at least could not find the pattern, nor see what his relationship to Bolingbroke...