A Guide to Watching Economic Statistics in 1970s
A compact primer explains key measures like the CPI and PPI, warns against over interpreting monthly figures, and highlights indices from the unemployment rate to leading indicators. It stresses using long-run trends, multiple data points, and official honesty of government statistics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Labor Department
Commerce Department
Federal Reserve Board
Data Resources, Inc
Chase Econometrics
Nixon
Buyer Beware consumer newsletter begins publication
Robert Barton and partners launch Buyer Beware, a bi monthly consumer information newsletter with mail order and telephone complaint service under Community Communications. The first edition appeared last month. the next issue due December 1 will change format and include a separate complaint line. The project cost about $10,000 with volunteer help. call 375-6413 for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Barton
West Arlington
Andrew
Barbara Bacchi
Matthew
Barton
Wall Street
Self-serve gas stations boom across the United States
Self-service pumping has grown to 15 percent of the U.S. motor fuel market with about 33,000 of 176,500 stations offering self service. Initially seen as a fad, it spread as fuel costs rose, despite bans in Illinois North Dakota Oregon and Ohio. Exxon USA's Randall Meyer predicts over half of motorists will pump their own by the early 1960s with discounts of 2 to 7 cents per gallon.
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Europe
United States
N.Y. Times News
New York
Platt
West Coast
Illinois
North Dakota
Oregon
Ohio
Randall Meyer
Exxon USA
Environmentally sound Beaver Creek ski area planned in Colorado
Beaver Creek, a 20 million dollar project near Avon planned by Vail Associates, aims to be a model of environmentally sound recreation with mass transit and water purification. Developer Bob Parker touts controlled growth and major capital needs while facing opposition from state officials and environmentalists led by Gov. Lamm seeking further impact studies.
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Deborah Frazier
AVON
Colo
UPI
Willis Nottingham
Colorado Rockies
Vail Associates
Nottingham
Colorado
Eagle River
Beaver Creek
President Ford
Vail
Bob Parker
National Forest
Richard Lamm
Richard Peterson
Parker
Rockies
Aspen Ski Corp
Walt Disney Inc
Green Mountain Power names new Wilmington manager
Green Mountain Power Corp. named Robert A. Maynard as manager of the Wilmington office, succeeding James Fontaine who becomes Montpelier district manager. Fontaine will stay about a month to assist Maynard. Maynard previously led the Wilmington branch of Vermont National Bank and served as credit manager at Brattleboro Retreat. He spent five years in the Air Force, including Berlin crisis duty. He is involved with the Wilmington Lions Club, Wilmington Fire Department, Salvation Army unit, and Our Lady of Fatima Parish. He is married to Sheila King and they live in Wilmington with their two children.
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Wilmington
Robert A. Maynard
Green Mountain Power Corp
James Fontaine
Montpelier
Fontaine
Maynard
Vermont National Bank
Brattleboro
Air Force
Berlin
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Consumer Information Service
Vermont
Bennington
Savings & Loan Association
Main Street
Pratt Street
Bennington, Vt
Thayer
Bennington ,Vtz
Paul E. Bushee
Union Carbide Corp
Neva D. LaCroix
Conrad R. Hoffman
Bushee
Richard N. Chenail
Therese T. Reardon
Green Mountain Power
New Wilmington
Vermont National
FDIC
Morse
Butie
North Street
Monument Plaza
Tuttle
Progressive Building
Depot Street
Universal Bundle
American Standard
Stewart Warner
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