Time Clock, Jan. 19, 1959

DROPPING FARM PRICES will put parity below 80% for first time in 19 years. Lower prices are coming for cotton, grain, citrus, eggs, milk.

WANDERING AMERICANS will lay out $28 billion for travel this year, up 12% from record 1958. They will spend $2.5 billion in foreign travel in 1959, close to $5 billion by 1964, predicts American Society of Travel Agents.

ATOM BLASTS FOR OIL are being seriously considered by U.S. Bureau of Mines figures nuclear blasts could free more than 1 trillion bbl. of oil locked in rocky shale formations. Opening shot is...

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