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Show Ui St Prediction Incrtttit Six Billions Slnei Junt ; WASHINGTON, Record mashing mash-ing results In the third quarter of IMS were piled up by the nation's economic machine. It produced goods and itrrlces at an unprecedented annual rate of 250 billion dollars, according to a commerce department estimate. The turnout for the quarter was six billion dollars above the rate of the preceding quarter, and 11 billion bil-lion dollars above the rate In 1948'f first three months. Spending, of course, kept pace at an overall matter. But officials found significance In the fact that outlays for personal consumption rose less than did persona Income. "Personal spending Is more dependent de-pendent on Income now," one official of-ficial said. "In the early part of the post-war boom, people Increased In-creased spending even If they did not get an Increase In Income. Now, It looks as if they won't spend as much If they don't get more." . Personal income, after deducting tax payments amounting to more than 20 billion dollars on an annual an-nual basis, moved to a record high rate of 193,700 million dollars a year In the third quarter up 5,500 million dollars from the second quarter. |