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...policy is to let the British have their way in Iran, let them have their way. A Western diplomat in Teheran wryly remarked that bargaining with Mossadegh reminded him of a Persian rug dealer who keeps upping his price each time he opens his mouth. The analogy might be apt, but unless Washington and London make some real effort to get Mossy's carpet while it is still for sale, the dealers in the Kremlin may still pick it up free...
...coming to market within the next month or so, and we fully expect prices to go down substantially." But packers pointed out that higher freight rates and higher packinghouse wages would make it impossible to pass on all of the wholesale drops. And ranchers themselves argued that demand is apt to go right on rising with the supply. The U.S., eating 48.7 Ibs. of beef per person in 1930, last year ate 63 Ibs. in spite of high prices. With incomes high, any cut in beef prices is apt to bring a lot more buying of sirloin from people...
...parents a reward for taking him off their hands. Sample dialogue (strictly not O. Henry as the boy sicks a bear on his terrified captors: "He's a cinnamon bear," says Allen. Replies Levant: "I don't care what flavor he is. He's more apt to taste...
...kind of bitter medicine that British Socialists are apt to call "criminal" when handed out by employers. But getting it from one of their own, the T.U.C. gulped it down. By a whopping 6,856.000 votes to 504,000 (delegates vote for their union membership by proxy), the congress accepted its leaders' call for wage restraint. But the buffeted Bevanites still had their day. As if to console them, the T.U.C., before it broke up, hastily resolved that: ¶The T.U.C. General Council should make plans for more extensive nationalization, for the time when the Labor Party is returned...
...radio last week reported that housewives are apt to turn on their radios by day and save the TV set for the evenings, when the family gets together. In an advertising rate change that bore out this report, CBS radio announced a slash of some 20 to 30% on evening charges for its regular customers. Daytime rates would be boosted about 5%. The daytime boost brings CBS's rates back to where they were in 1951, when radio began to have doubts that it could outdraw TV in the morning and afternoon...