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...1940s, retail prices exclusive of food have gone up more than 30%. Over the same span, retail food prices have increased only 13%. This moderate rise in food prices reflected increased processing and distribution costs; prices received by farmers actually declined during the 1950s, and have only slowly inched upward under Freeman (see chart). The average U.S. family spent 26% of aftertax income for food 15 years ago; today food takes only 19%. Says Freeman: "This is the smallest share of income spent for food by any people, anywhere in the world, at any time in modern history." In contrast...
...knows, sailplaning as a sport grew up in Germany. The Treaty of Versailles forbade Germans to build a powered air force, so future Luftwaffe pilots had to learn to fly in engineless craft. At first, they hedgehopped for short distances along the hillsides, depending on air currents deflected upward by the slopes to keep them aloft. But in 1921, gliding down a slope in the Rhon Mountains, a German airman noticed a flock of storks suddenly shooting upward more than 1,200 ft. without so much as flapping a wing. He turned toward the birds-and found himself wafted higher...
...about 1,000 ft. by powered aircraft, sailplaners strap on their oxygen masks and search the skies for "streets"-chains of puffy cumulus clouds marking the presence of thermals that may rise straight up from 5,000 ft. to 30,000 ft.. and can propel a lightweight glider upward at better than 1,000 ft. a minute...
...spot at the southern end of the boundary between light and dark, where it fell to about -50° F. No one is sure what this means. Perhaps the clouds are higher or more opaque at this point. Perhaps a surface feature, such as a high mountain, forces them upward...
...economy seemed to be geared to the stock-market reaction, and people apparently lost their confidence. But that seems to be behind us now." Samuel A. Groves, president of Boston's United-Carr Fastener Corp., now sees the stage set for a move "pretty steadily-if slowly-upward." He is seconded by Raytheon Financial Vice President George Ingram Jr., who looks for "a gradual improvement this year...