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...voice against Russia and also against its erstwhile hero, Henry Wallace. It had paid its way for only one year (1944-45). It had snooted advertising for six years, then found few advertisers wanted to come in when it opened its columns to them. Its circulation, which hit a peak of 164,686 in 1946, was down to 140,834 last week...
Consumer resistance to high prices was the chief cause of the biliousness. Yet most manufacturers did nothing to cure it by cutting prices even though hide prices are down 15 to 25% from last fall's peak. Instead, they cut production in hopes that shortages again would make prices more palatable. A few shoe men talked of price cuts-but only vaguely...
Fill 'er Up. Despite last year's peak production of two billion barrels of oil, the U.S. discovered about 700 million barrels more than it tapped. At year's end, known U.S. reserves were 24,741,660,000 barrels, an alltime high...
...quite old times yet. Some of the slackening was only seasonal. Production was still booming; but employment was down 3,000,000 from the peak. There was no question that more & more businesses were getting near the end of their backlogs. The question was: How seasonal can the U.S. economy get without running into trouble...
Between Movies. Mass production had also come to the industry. The Radio Manufacturers Association estimated that television output (31 manufacturers) reached a new monthly peak in February of around 33,000 sets, a jump of nearly 170% in six months. The speedup in production and increased competition had. also brought out cheaper models...