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Some business leaders still viewed that prospect with the kind of alarm that caused the market to dip after the Republicans lost the Maine state elections. "Venture capital," said one, "would crawl into its shell and creep away." Others shrugged their shoulders. "You might do better with Ike," said Connecticut's Richard G. Williams, major stockholder of the J. B. Williams Co., "but you won't go broke with Stevenson...
...From Creep to Sprint. The Mollet government had compelling reasons for its refusal to increase the price of bread. One of France's gravest problems is the creeping inflation which in the last year has increased the housewife's food bills by 30%. A rise in the price of bread, the government feared, would be just the psychological spark required to set off a universal demand for wage increases that would change creeping inflation into a wild sprint...
...Creep-an undesirable play or movement in a mechanism...
...over the previous high of 115.4 reached in May (and equaled once before in October 1953)-Chief reason for the spurt: a sharp (2%) rise in food costs, partly seasonal. Said BLS Commissioner Ewan Clague, who saw no signs of inflation in the jump: the index "will probably creep up a little more," but there will be no repetition of the June spurt-"I'm positive of that...
Nevermore to peep again, creep again...