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...Association of Shoe Chain Stores, said: "It is difficult for shoe chains to extend general sympathy to all requests for increases based on so-called replacement pricing. An examination of financial statements of certain segments of the industry employing replacement pricing shows that lavish reserves have been provided to cushion the same firms against prices on the downgrade...
...splendidly dressed young nobleman (Sabu) come to the convent to learn the ways of God and of Western civilization, but stay to play peekaboo. The local nabob's insolent British handyman (David Farrar) lolls about the nunnery in shorts, displaying enough chest hair to stuff a kneeling cushion...
...Report that the rises might prove temporary. He promised to reduce prices by Aug. 15 if costs rose less than 73? a ton, absorb the difference if they rose more. Pittsburgh Consolidation's first-quarter earnings-up some 40% over the same period last year-provided an ample cushion...
...raised white platform in Delhi's Untouchable colony sat the Mahatma, cross-legged on a white cushion, a cooling wet white kerchief covering his bald head. Overhead glimmered a lone 80-watt electric bulb. Reluctantly he assented to the splitting of India. "What is past is past," he mourned. "I cannot blame the Viceroy for what has happened. It was an act of Congress and the League...
...billion, no more. Next year's revenues were expected to run $2½ to $3 billion over former estimates. Allowing $1 billion for foreign commitments, $2 billion for debt reduction, taxes could safely be reduced by about $3 billion and still leave a comfortable cushion of cash against a possible recession or other eventualities. This would be nearly $1 billion less than the House...