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...with a chill. The poll snowed that 1) well-heeled U.S. consumers are more reluctant to make big purchases than they were a year ago, and 2) the reluctance stems largely from discontent with high prices. Reuther's wage boosts would tend to push prices upward, making consumers even more reluctant to buy. And for workers who did not share in the new round of raises, the higher prices would mean a decrease in real purchasing power...
...ground at a fairly fast clip. The first stage burned for 150 seconds. When its fuel was gone, about 60 miles above the earth, most of the Redstone dropped away, leaving only a short section of the nose attached to the spinning bucket. As it zoomed upward at several thousand miles per hour, a gyroscopically controlled device turned the missile's attitude toward the horizontal by blowing jets of compressed air through nozzles. This process took about 240 seconds. By that time the bird was at the peak of its first-stage flight, and pointing in the direction...
Until today it seemed my path led upward...
...sign, the President pledged the Administration to promote price stability. But he also called upon business and labor to show restraint in using their power to force up prices and wages. Price boosts unjustified by cost increases can curb demand. Wage boosts unjustified by productivity increases can push prices upward, slow down economic recovery...
...main economic task confronting the U.S., as the President's Economic Report saw it, is not merely to get the indexes of output and employment moving upward again, but to assure that the coming upturn brings "increases in real output accompanied by stable prices...