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...much slack. Government and private business analysts agreed, in the main, on the immediate trend: business in general would slide downward for about six months, then climb. The optimistic guesstimaters were almost unanimous: 1947 and 1948 will see national income on a high level - perhaps about $135 billion (wartime peak: $165 billion...
...peak the Japanese tide of conquest had covered approximately one-tenth of the globe, encompassed 400 million of the world's two billion population. Japan's Greater East Asia bubble had burst...
...more than half of them have the cash in the bank or in War Bonds. One third of the prospects plan to buy or build within the next year. The FORUM estimates that this may mean 555,600 new houses, almost as many as the alltime building peak...
...Edison produced 6,000 ranges a week. Turnbull hopes to reach this output again by midwinter, and exceed 1941's peak next year. With his sights set so high. Turnbull was sure he could turn a profit at the OPA prices...
Professor Lehman, 56, has long devoted himself to a very special study: at what age are man's creative powers at their peak? Talented men, he reports, keep up the quantity of their output fairly well until about 50. But the peak of greatness occurs much earlier. Although there are many individual exceptions, most of the great operas, novels, paintings, scientific discoveries, etc. have been produced by men just rounding 30. This, he finds, coincides with the age at which men sire most children and break most sports records...