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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fair Lady still leads the musical field, with The Music Man a close second, and Redhead (Gwen Verdon up), followed by Flower Drum Song, just about rounding the box-office turn...
TOILET TISSUE. "One commercial which showed an attractive woman purchasing and storing toilet tissue was in excellent taste until the moment she tore the tissue in a close-up shot...
...interest the Government pays on such bonds, argued Congressmen, would only be an open invitation to all other money rates to go up, would cost the Government more to finance its debt. Last week interest rates were going up anyway without an invitation, and the Government was paying close to-or more than-4¼% on its new securities...
...growing grey market, with prices of some steels up to $250 a ton, almost double the list price. Layoffs caused by lack of steel continued to mount. General Electric Co. began laying off 1,400 workers in its heavy appliance manufacturing center at Louisville, said it will have to close down its entire operation employing 11,000 unless the steel strike ends within three weeks. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. last week laid off 521 workers at two Midwestern plants, will drop 1,200 more by the end of the month. At General Motors Corp.'s AC Spark Plug Division...
...even more heroic rescue was required in 1 958 for France. Weakened by the wars in Algeria and Viet Nam and poor fiscal management, France was close to financial collapse when Jacobsson hustled to the rescue. He arranged a package of $655 million in credit from the Fund, the European Payments Union and the U.S. With the loan went some detailed recommendations on how France could put its fiscal house in order. It did so well that after De Gaulle came to power he was able to devalue and stabilize the franc. At other times, Jacobsson rescued the Danes, Dutch...