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...Lloyd lectured the House on Britain's nagging problem of productivity, asked for standby power to tax companies 4 shillings (56?) per week for each worker they employ, as a means of encouraging them to switch to more efficient, labor-saving machinery. To fight inflation and help bolster sagging exports, the chancellor proposed that Parliament drop the system of fixing excise and purchase taxes by law, leave it to the government to manipulate the rates within limits as it sees fit, raising the taxes when the domestic market is absorbing too many goods better exported, lowering them when...
...Cardinals will be lucky to retain their spot in the first division. With Larry Jackson suffering a fractured jaw, the Card pitching staff looks thin. Behind Ernie Broglio and Lindy MacDaniel stand assorted hangers-on and voices from the past. Only former Globetrotter Bob Gibson stands a chance to bolster the staff...
...erect, dignified, sparrow-thin man. now 79, worked in the local sawmills (Laurel used to call itself the Yellow Pine Capital of the World before the woods gave out). Kate Price, an iron-willed woman with some of Leontyne's own incendiary temper, took to midwifery to bolster the family income. Working at first for a fee of $10 per baby-or sometimes for a side of bacon or a barrel of peas-Kate delivered about 900 children over the years and never, she boasts proudly, lost a mother. But she created some problems for Leontyne : "The neighbor kids...
...strong in Laurel as anywhere in the South, but the children were not aware of it at the time: "We were taught to judge peo ple as individuals, not on the pigment of their skin," says George. Today some Southerners use the Price success story to bolster their arguments. Says Laurel's Leader-Call Editor J. W. West: "This gal is a good example to other nigras. She wasn't hurt by attending a nigra school...
Likewise, books such as The Organization Man depict the business world as a most unappetizing set of soul-sellings (how many students have read The Academic Marketplace?). Galbraith describes the businessman as occasionally impotent and occasionally interested in creating an attractive corporate image to bolster his ego, but seldom controlling his own destiny. In terms of attitudes like these, it is more comprehensible that undergraduates should regard the National Merit Scholarship program as a sort of apologia by businessmen who regret their selling out to the non-intellectual world...