The economy of the United States after 1952 was the economy of a well-fed, almost fully employed people.
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- It can be inferred from the passage that most people in the United States in 1955 viewed the national economy with an air of _________.
- The United States’ economy suffered severely from the two World Wars in the 20th century.
- ( ) is the first country to propose the “low-carbon economy” in 2003. A: Denmark B: The United States C: China D: The United Kingdoms
- The economy of the United States after 1952 was the economy of a well-fed, almost fully employed people. Despite occasional alarms, the country escaped any postwar depression and lived in a state of boom. An economic survey of the year 1955, a typical year of the 1950’s, may be typical as illustrating the rapid economic growth of the decade. The national output was value at 10 percent above that of 1954 (1955 output was estimated at 392 billion dollars). The production of manufacturers was about 40 percent more than it had averaged in the years immediately following World War II. The country’s business spent about 30 billion dollars for new factories and machinery. National income available for spending was almost a third greater than it had been in 1950. Consumers spent about 256 billion dollars; that is about 700 million dollars a day, or about twenty-five million dollars every hour, all round the clock. Sixty-five million people held jobs and only a little more than two million wanted jobs but could not find them. Only agriculture complained that it was not sharing in the boom. To some observers this was an ominous echo of the mid-1920’s. As farmer’s share of their products declined, marketing costs rose. But there were, among the observers of the national economy, a few who were not as confident as the majority. Those few seemed to fear that the boom could not last and would eventually lead to the opposite-depression.
- The highway system has had great effects on the economy in the United States, for it has made possible the relocation of many plants from the city to the countryside.