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...high taxes to cut public debt, got it into the habit of trying to stay in the black. The U.S. has managed surpluses in 95 of its 158 years, but has never been entirely out of debt. Lowest point of the national debt was $37,513 (in 1835); the peak was $279.2 billion (Feb. 28, 1946). Current national debt: $258 billion...
...Ministry of Health talked soothingly to keep down public alarm, medical officers quietly shut swimming pools and children's cinema shows, called off children's holiday trips, discouraged public meetings. But the epidemic has continued to rise, and doctors fear that it has not yet reached its peak...
Alcoa had no reason to deplore the price cuts. In a sense, the three competitors are fighting the same fight. The aluminum industry emerged from the war with a capacity of more than 1 billion pounds a year-well over three times its prewar peak...
Prior to the swollen enrollments of the Law School at war, the number of students from the middle 'thirties on showed a downward trend from the peak year of 1936-37 a checkback yesterday showed. At this point the total...
...materials and absenteeism due to the heat swelled the total of idle automotive workers to more than 80,000, slowed the industry's production to a weekly total of 79,699 cars and trucks (compared to 97,712 the week before and 108,472 at the postwar peak in March...