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...rate over the last half-century that the American economy has assumed entirely new dimensions. "The U.S. has not merely climbed to a new plateau but is ascending heights whose upper limit is not yet measurable, and at an accelerated rate of speed. Our long-term trend is unmistakably upward...
...offers a solution to a critical problem: how to keep the bomber from being destroyed by the effects of its own thermonuclear bomb. The toss-bombing technique (TIME, Sept. 24), which projects the bomb forward and upward while the bomber turns on its back and gets away, does not give a big margin of safety in the case of high-yield bombs. But if the pod is engineered as an air-to-ground missile with rocket propulsion of its own, it can be launched while the Hustler is many miles away from the target. While it is still curving through...
...such as high Government spending, support prices for farmers and other subsidized groups, and a faster turnover of loan funds to offset the Federal Reserve Bank's tight-money policy. And in a new study, the Bureau of Labor Statistics points out that prices have actually led wages upward during most of the postwar period...
...upward trend of wages was due not only to the scarcity of labor but also to the spread throughout industry of the G.M. idea of automatic increases. This ran counter to traditional business practice because it placed emphasis on a long-term rise in productivity and kept wages rising even when productivity temporarily stopped rising (as it did last year) or business temporarily slackened (as in steel and autos this year...
...inflation might ease during the year's second half. But before week's end, the day after the President appealed for "statesmanlike action," Pittsburgh's giant U.S. Steel Corp. announced inflationary price boosts averaging $6 a ton (see BUSINESS). To halt the price index's upward creep, Washington was going to need some help from Pittsburgh (Pa.)-as well as Mexico...