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1952

Economic Profile

Dow-Jones: High 252 - Low 232
GNP: +5%
Inflation: +1.7%
Unemployment: 3.0%

Entertainment and Communication

TV Production: 6,096,000
AM Radio Stations: 2,355
Household telephones: 66%

Random Prices

Toll rate, New York-San Francisco: $2.50
Advertising expenditures: $7.7 billion
21” Admiral console TV, radio, phonograph: $399.95
Folding TV table: $2.95
Pizza Pie: 75¢ (large), 50¢ (small)
Complete Chinese dinner, House of Chan, New York: $1.50
Canaries: $9.95
Fleischmann gin: $3.55 (qt.)
Body massager: $6.95
Vitatone: $9.95
Bulova watch: $27.50; Omega: $71.50


*American Chronicle

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