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Ring Out the Old. By week's end Congress had stamped its final seal of approval on a bale of bills. The main ones: flex ible farm-parity prices, atomic energy, death penalty for peacetime espionage, social security, foreign aid, 5% Government salary raise, unemployment compensation, higher national debt limit, Commodity Credit Corporation borrowing authority, Foreign Service expansion, and the "Hiss" bill revoking pensions of Government workers convicted of felonies or using the Fifth Amendment...
...power and reputation of a demagogue rise and fall in inverse ratio to the courage and determination of other men. Last week Joe McCarthy's reputation, perched precariously on a bale of old newspaper clippings and the timidity of his Senate colleagues, began to bobble slightly...
...Bale. The project appealed to them from the start. Both songwriters shy from commonplace situations, and Pajama Game's unconventional pajama-factory setting and management-labor struggle bristled with off-beat possibilities. They liked the idea of a rough, tough chorus, and wrote "fish or cut bait" parts...
...cotton market moved up on crop estimates by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Cotton futures spurted as much as $1 a bale on news that 1954's cotton plantings, which had been cut 21% under 1953's. largely as a result of Government controls, would produce only 12 million bales v. 16.5 million last year. But corn production, despite a 17.4% cut in acreage, was estimated at 3.3 billion bu., about 135 million more than last year's crop and nearly 255 million higher than the ten-year average...
...mechanical cotton picker will do as much work in one day as 40 men, cut picking costs from as high as $52.55 to $18.70 a bale...