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Relying on knowledge of the boom and bust in the twenties, accumulated for his forthcoming book "The Great crash," he warned the committee that "there are similarities between 1929 and 1954 which are certainly interesting and possibly disturbing." "What has happened before so many times can obviously happen again," he added...
Britain's newly found boom could turn to bust. That was the clear implication of a series of drastic measures announced last week to the House of Commons by Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard A. Butler. Amid jeers from the Labor benches and gasps from the Tories, Butler warned that Britain, which earned a surplus of $560 million last year, is slipping back into the red. Inflation threatens, the dollar gap is widening, sterling is depressed...
...life dressed them selves in newly designed getups, paraded about the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria to help raise money for a final victory over polio. Among the models were austerely beautiful Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Jr. (who displayed what Couturier Charles James called "the highest bust line in 125 years"), socially registered Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, TV Star Margaret Truman, and split-bustled sometime Stripteaser-Novelist Gypsy Rose Lee. Bubbled Gypsy: "I don't worry about shoes. When they start looking at my shoes, I'll retire...
...There Can Be More IN the high-flying air world, one fledgling that has yet to find its wings is the air-freight business. Of 120 new lines that hopefully started up at the end of World War II, more than 50% went bust. Last year U.S. air freighters flew only 284 million ton-miles of cargo, a 3% gain over 1953, but barely one-tenth of 1% of the total cargo business...
...Goodrich C. Schauffler's strident disapproval of "the modern U.S. preoccupation with the female bust": it might be helpful to suggest-solely in the interests of science, of course-that the mid-century American is not the only one who has been mammary-directed-see The Song of Solomon...