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IS AMERICA'S BOOM

WO friends of mine were strolling along Third Avenue, New York, last week. In

a car showroom they saw gleaming new Cadillac price- tagged at $5,000.

They went inside and asked the salesman how much he would take for the

car.

"Four Uousand," he replied. without hesitation. Then he ackled "t's yours for fifty down."

So for $50 just under £18—— my friends. could have driven off in the latest model of the "ent of ens", dhe Rolls-Royce of Amerlea,

That Cadillac story is IX isolated epimxle. It is typical of what

happening in caz showrooms all over Americu.

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danger: the manger of tracte recession and enemployment not caly nerous The Atlantie but i Britain as well.

1 year the American car factories enjoyed their biggest boor, with output soaring to a A ver-before 1,000,000 cars, But Low,

the Cadillac story Khow. the Buto boom ir beginning to us out of gos.

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Over-produced

ABOUT TO EXPLODE?

by BERNARD HARRIS

Whole new towns are spring- Twu courses ite open Lo ing up in the U.S And all the him:-- houses in thern are being bought by instalments.

So far there has been tie frouble, Defaulls are officially reckoned at under one percent of credit sales.

But the re-purchase debt is alariningly. It is increasing valpacing the rise in the income of American familles. Only

sight setback in trade would be needed to cause

trouble in millions of American homes.

And the les between America and Europe are so close that these troubles would soon ripple across the Atlantic.

The edge would quickly be

CAs are being over-produced. rubbed off Britain's prosperity. To get rid of them denters Diffeullies In Our bverseas are offering them, us they say markets could soon put an crid "egardless."

to over-full employment.

They are slashing their own profits,

A

What are the chances of such

setback developing In

the

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rye, oats, barley, peanuts, honey, beans, olive oil, and tobacco.

So far Benson has given away food worth £110 million. He hus sold £150 million at cut payment in focal prices, with currencies stend of dollars. He has bartered a lot more for manganese,

cobalt, and

luminium.

But he has inade no impres- sion on the two most vilal com- modities; the pile of wheat and cotton grows and grows.

How is America to get rid of them in a world already glutted with wheat and cotton?

Warning Voices

FT is there that the risk to the

I time, it is there that s

Already warning voices are being raised.

To vam the goodwill of the train of events could be started powerful farm bloc he can which woul! bring unemploy- mite to support prices. This ment to Britain. will mean still bigger surpluses and s bigger bills for storage, Already the cost of storing the present surplus is running at a million dollars a day.

OR.

CANADA Accuses the U.S. of disrupting her wheat markets, NEW ZELAND complains of a "serious threat to her trade.

mys that if wheat dumping

overseas

purchain »luding

He eun acek to get rid of AUSTRALIA d the surpluses by "give. American aways and cut-price sales. But brings u tali in her own sales this involves the risk of grave she will be forced to cut her doturbance to world commodity overs markels, a disturbance which purchases from could entail a catastrophie drop

The signs are that the food in the buying power of furmers surpluses, plus the top-heavy hare-purchase debt, will start to take the gloss of the Anerican boom this year.

the world over.

The recession may be sharp. It is certain to affect Britain- though that is not to say I sec disaster ahead. America and ourreves have learned a lot

In bulging warehouses molk- hadled ships, factories, empty theatres, oil tanks-in fact, in anything that will hold to gether the US. now content

mountain of fur plates this produce: They are stepping up U.S.?

since 1029. The setback is allowances for used cars which If you look at Wall Street

More than a year's supply of not likely to degenerate into a traded in part-exchange.

More tha # you will get the impression that whent.

year's real old-fashioned bust. Finally--and this the most the chances are oil. For, as the supply of cotton. Three months One thing is certain Every- serious frature of all-they are

Mions of Small American speculator flocks supply of maize.

one can see that sometime there offering "easy credit" terms in to buy. Wall Street stocks pounds of butter and cheese, must be an agonising reappraksul which are easier than anything hilt u new peak day by day.

Plus an enormous assortment of in the United States, known before.

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The lesson of history, as the economiste ELTO begloning being bulldozed by high- discover again, is that no boom pressure salesmanship in to BC- goes on for ever, just as no free quiring a brand-new maching. ever grows to the sky,

So today six out of every 10 ears sold in the U.S. are on the "never never."

That wouldn't

matter 50

much it it were contined tu

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But other Industries, de

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pite the sunny economic climate to come along sooner or later.

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I something in "The Work" if it has captured Miss Johns, who

They top are having to lies in its excessive stocks of make it easier for the customer food and other farm products.

These STOCKA, accumulated Among them are the

T was nearly four a.m. Mi household equipment makers, under the fixed price support

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on £3,000 million.

I him or not-especially cherubically attractive. So But it is on the houses to

was giving me a lesson on when he's talking about Just what to do with them

love accepted her offer of future all that contain

unpaid-for is the headache

the more intricate steps of "When he's doing a love scene lessons on "The Work." currently con- equipment and garage those fronting Mr Ezra Taft Benson.

the mambo.

before the cameras ho makes At different times, of coLITSE, unpaid-for cars that the biggest President Eisenhower's Secretary "It's that half-best that's in- you feel that he believes in it from the mambo lessons. debt of all is piling up.

of Agriculture.

portant," she whispered into my only woman in the world.

passionately, and that you're the left ear in that voice of hers which can compete with maracas. can switch suddenly. and talk

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give me She married Mr Foster, who the near is an exocutivo of a leading attacks on the Admiralty over future, Under her Inspiring soap company; in 1952, saying: written.

tution I may www graduato "This marriage will last."

But to cha-cha in 1950.

iwo months. ago it was on- Earlier, over dinner, she told nounced that she had left Mr me she would like to use bar Foster for a trial separation.*

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