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...below). The committee proposal to boost the federal gasoline tax by 1? a gallon to get the nearly stalled federal-state highway program fueled up again was a "step in the right direction," said Ike (he had urged a 1½ increase), but he objected to the proposal to channel about half the revenue from federal taxes on automobiles and parts into the highway trust fund. Transferring that revenue, argued Ike. ''would only shift the fiscal problem from the highway fund to the general fund, which is already in precarious balance...
Drifting south to Los Angeles, he went to work as a TV announcer. Within a month, the station was hit by a strike. Douglas' reaction: he conned three actors off the picket line and sold them (complete with sponsors) to a competing channel...
...that U.S. industry rolled into 1959 with more than $18 billion in capital funds that can be invested in inventories or plants. Industries have piled inventories so high (adding at an annual rate of $10.4 billion in the second quarter alone) that economists feel they will now begin to channel their funds into new plants to meet consumers' rising demands. That does not mean that the inventory boom has spent itself; inventories have moved up close to the peak level of January 1957, but sales have moved up even faster...
...Hoffa is going to make every effort to go on behaving like Hoffa. Last week he finished buying control of the Miami National Bank so that he can use the bank to get around labor-bill controls on what he does with Teamster welfare-fund money. He plans to channel welfare-fund millions into Miami National and then distribute the money as bank loans and investments, exempt from labor-bill restrictions...
...extent of U.S. influence is as familiar to British televiewers as Maverick or Richard (Have Gun) Boone. On London's commercial Channel 9 last week, there were more than nine hours of U.S. shows. And the BBC supplied another eight. Caught up in the cultural invasion, armchair wayfarers could head out with Wagon Train or Highway Patrol. With tea they got Annie Oakley, Mickey Mouse, Popeye; with cocktails it was Lucille Ball in Lucy or Ann (Private Secretary) Sothern; with the bedtime mild-and-bitter came OSS, or Lee Marvin's M Squad. On commercial channels...