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Show Washington Snapshots t By jjam&i Pieitatt Leaders in the drive for a "planned" "plan-ned" economy have stumbled over Federal statistics which upsetv their apple-cart. 1 v When everything was about ready for a campaign based on the theory that business had slumped because of a drop in public purchasing pur-chasing power, the Department of Commerce announced that personal person-al income for the first five months of 1949 ran at a rate of 3 per cent higher than in the corresponding period of 1948. And just in time to stop unfounded un-founded complaints that big incomes in-comes were bigger, and small incomes in-comes smaller, the Federal Reserve Reser-ve Board said more than half the nation's "spending units" had bigger big-ger incomes in 1948 than in 1947. |