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...chairman-Gardner Ackley-and two relatively new members who have yet to prove themselves in their posts. As the President's first line of economic advice, the Council will bear heavy responsibility in the coming months for deciding what methods to adopt to keep the economy moving upward...
...Tone Blue. Floyd Hall's ship has a long climb upward before a permanent breakthrough is certain. Eastern is still inadequately equipped with jets and owes a staggering $253 million in purchase loans on those it has. Even so, Hall is so pleased with the line's improving image that he has increased advertising budgets 40% to publicize "the new Eastern" and is repainting Eastern's planes a bright, two-tone "Caribbean blue" and "stratosphere blue" to signal the change...
...surrender is this," he wrote, "to believe that there is, somewhere, a scheme of things that will eliminate conflict, struggle, stupidity, cupidity, personal jealousy. The idea of Utopia is mischievous. as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is bom pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward...
...Decision. The steady upward march of prosperity is a result not only of the consumer's increased income, but a change in how and on what he spends it. Despite pockets of poverty in Appalachia and city slums, the U.S. has become the first society on earth in which people spend less for needs than for wants. The average urban family now spends only 48% of its after-tax income on the food, clothing and shelter that it needs; it has 52% left over to spend or not to spend, as it pleases, on expanding those basic necessities...
...profit margin is among the dozen highest in the nation's 500 biggest companies. Not counting its G.M. dividends, Du Pont earned $325 million last year on sales of $2.6 billion. Most important, Du Pont is so busy challenging the market with new products and ideas that the upward trend is almost certain to continue. Recently the company has: - > Invaded the $5 billion-a-year footwear business with Corfam, a leather substitute that looks, feels and "breathes" like leather and could cut into the natural leather market the way nylon slashed into silk...