Word: slowdown
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Checking the Flow. The big reasons for the U.S.'s bigger trade balance are: 1) a reduction in steel imports following the end of the strike, 2) a slowdown in foreign auto imports, and 3) a pickup in exports of autos, trucks, machinery, aluminum, raw cotton and other commodities. The growing success of the campaign to export more was reflected by a big drop in the outflow of gold from the U.S. in the first quarter. In the first quarter last year, the U.S. lost $92 million in gold. Last week the Treasury reported that in the first quarter...
...case involved a slowdown called by the Insurance Agents' International Union during a contract dispute with the Prudential Insurance Co. in 1956. The union did not call a strike, but urged its member-agents to snipe at the company by refusing to write any new business, work scheduled hours, or make required reports. Prudential filed an unfair labor practice charge that was upheld by the NLRB, but subsequently set aside by the U.S. Court of Appeals and appealed by the NLRB. In the meantime, Prudential reached an agreement with the union, signed a new contract which it renewed last...
...have fewer heirs; yet in Indonesia, where a similar law exists, the population goes on growing. Both in Japan, where doctors performed a million legal abortions last year, and in Puerto Rico, where women have become so enthusiastic about sterilization that it is known simply as "la operation," the slowdown in population increase is often attributed to a rising level of education and economic wellbeing. But to the confusion of the experts came the unforeseen baby boom in the postwar U.S.-at a time when education and incomes were at an alltime high. The boom shows no sign of abating...