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...demands of an expanding economy, is not a peculiar phenomenon of the great American boom. As gauged by interest rates, the U.S. actually has easier money than 23 other major nations. The entire free world is caught in the grip of an unparalleled capital shortage that threatens to crimp the expansion plans of businessmen from Bonn to Bombay...
...Publisher Loeb is made of more carefully tempered stuff than Wisconsin's McCarthy; few New Hampshiremen expect a censure resolution (a questionable step in this instance) to crimp his rambunctious style. A Neanderthal Republican whose father was Teddy Roosevelt's secretary, Oyster Bay-born Bill Loeb, 51, insists that, the G.O.P. is riddled with Communists, in 1952 was one of the few of any party to endorse the late Bertie McCormick's proposal for a simon-pure "American Party." Spry, restless Loeb brags that the Union Leader will print any letter it receives, pointed out a recent...
Worldwide copper strikes last year put a serious crimp in production. Meanwhile, annual world consumption has risen to more than 2 Ibs. per capita v. .6 in 1900. The U.S., where per capita consumption has soared from 5 to 17 Ibs. a year since 1900, now uses more than half the free world's copper production. For example, the electrical industry, which expects to double in size in the next decade, uses 115 Ibs. of copper to generate and distribute each new kilowatt of power...
...Broadway production was as intimate as a hotfoot; the Goldwyn movie takes a blowtorch full of Eastman Color and stereophonic sound to get the same reaction. More specifically, a couple of the principals do not quite deliver. Brando as the gambler has a nylon slickness and the right occupational crimp around the eyes. He dances, too, in one wonderful piece of mambo-jumbo, with a kind of animal rapture that moviegoers will want to see more of but he sings in a faraway tenor that sometimes tends to be flat...
...parley at the summit put a crimp in Labor's attempt to show themselves more appalled than the Tories by the H-bomb...