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...midweek the pressure was so great that the government had to do something. Finance Minister Douglas Abbott announced the remedy: a partial return of price controls. There would be price ceilings on meats, to be fixed in a week or two; controls on butter, to peg it around 73? a lb.; controls on certain types of fertilizers and a rollback of the price of chemical ingredients; extension of the government's price-control powers for another year. The government might even import butter from New Zealand. Rent controls would continue...
Also meeting on February 1 are the Gibson Giant Slalom at Cranmore Mountain, North Conway, and a cross country and jumping event at Holden, Massachusetts. The Gibson Slalom will consist of two runs of top-flight class A and B competition. Varsity skiers booked for this event are Gordy Abbott, Dee Bogert, Jerry Genn, Don Justus, Rod Nordblom, Frank Seabury, and Bill Wasserman...
Born. To Van Johnson, 32, pink-haired cinemactor; and Eve Abbott Wynn Johnson, 31, ex-wife but still good friend of Van's good friend, Actor Keenan Wynn; a daughter, his first child, her third; in Los Angeles. Name: Schuyler Van. Weight...
...last season the squad overcame such obstacles and almost all the team is back to face the music again this year. The first line is all veteran, with Johnny Crocker and Wally Sears at the wings and Dave Key at center, while two Sophomores, Myles Huntington and Dave Abbott will join forces with Tom Moseley as alternates. Bob Feloney, shaw McKean, and Bram Arnold make up the third string...
Expansion. The new restrictions were only temporary cures for the unhealthy gap between Canadian imports from the U.S. ($1½ billion in 1947's first nine months) and Canadian exports to the U.S. ($733 million in the same period). What about a permanent cure? Finance Minister Abbott had the beginnings of one. Under a new order-in-council, which will be shored up and clarified at the coming session of Canada's Parliament, the government is going to try to make a dream come true. The dream: a more highly industrialized Dominion that will make many...