First Half 1961 Shows Mixed Economic Rest Period
Roger Babson surveys 1961s first half noting stock market gains from 616 to 706, then 684 by midyear. Industrial output recovered after January February decline, with housing starts edging up and road building rising in spring, while unemployment rose in winter and personal incomes hit a new midyear high.
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Beef Reigns As Chief Supermarket Special
Beef dominates weekly supermarket specials with top grade steaks roasts and fowl among popular items. In the West and East, price declines for grain-fed steers meet abundant produce and new arrivals flood markets as hot weather boosts demand for vegetables and fruit.
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Supermark
Chicago
EAL Faces Tough Task Says Caos
Gastonia North Carolina Tuesday report quotes Jorge Cans former president of the Cuban Pilots Association saying Eastern Airlines will face a tough task recovering its hijacked 3.5 million plane from Cuba. Caos fled Cuba in Apol and links the hijacking to Yuri Gagarin’s Havana visit and a warning from Castro two weeks earlier about retaliation against an American plane following Cuban defection via a Castro plane in Miami.
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Havana
Sovyiet
Yuri Gagarin
Castro
America
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