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...bottom of the list, in which Der Spiegel's readers went farther afield, was equally interesting. Stalin placed fifth with 172 votes, just ahead of Talleyrand and Metternich. Others who made the all-star list: Mohandas K. Gandhi (with 103 votes), Frederick the Great (55), Disraeli (43), Lenin and Caesar (33), Francisco Franco (24), Marx (11), and Truman (7). Clement Attlee got one vote-three less than Jesus Christ...
Actually, the price cuts far outnumbered the few increases; the overall wholesale price index was dropping. And there were prospects of more price cuts ahead, if manufacturers wanted to keep their enormous output from piling up. In January, the Department of Commerce reported, manufacturers' sales had taken more than seasonal drops, and inventories had jumped by $400 million, about twice the seasonal increase. Unemployment was still on the rise. The Bureau of the Census reported an estimated total of 3,200,000 jobless in February, highest since 1942. But the rate of increase had slowed up. New claims...
Optimism & Pessimism. Production had hardly slipped at all. The FRB index was at 191 for January (1935-39 average: 100), down only four points from the postwar peak last fall. Construction in February was 14% ahead of 1948. The steel industry scheduled its eighth straight week of overcapacity output, and the auto industry was heading for the best monthly production since...
...period, Jack Carman was banished to the penalty box on the rarely called infraction of board checking. Seconds later he was joined by Lew Preston on a similar charge. Two men to the good, Yale's first line put tremendous pressure on goalie Yetman and scored twice to go ahead...
Less than a moment before, John Stevenson had stolen the ball from Yale's John Roche and pitched in a one handed shot to put his team ahead 54 to 53. Then Yale took a 55 to 54 lead with about 40 seconds to go and until Downey's eleventh hour shot it looked like Yale would take the see-saw battle...