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Show 211.9 BILLION -: U. S. Personal Insscie Still Ehnlor Everybody works. Everybody makes money. That is the theme song of the American people who are, nevertheless, twisting and turning in the clutches of an intolerable in-tolerable condition of inflation. But the money keeps on rolling in. Personal income hit a historic high rate of 211.9 billion dollars in June, the commerce department has reported. That figure is 2.5 billion dolla,s above the total personal per-sonal income for May. Responsible for the large May-to-June increase were the absence of major sirikes, impact of third-round third-round wage boosts in durable goods industries and higher prices received re-ceived by farmers for livestock, the department of commerce said. Wage and saiary payments jumped 2.3 billion dollars in June. |