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...Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council, the nation's top industrialists worried that tight money might force cutbacks in industry's expansion plans. Said Scripto's President James V. Carmichael: ("There's no question the tightening of credit has put a slight damper on our long-range planning." Department Store (Daniels & Fisher) President Joe Ross worried that the money shortage might cut back on Denver's "tremendous growth." Complained Ross: "The cost of expansion is prohibitive because of the money rates." But few businessmen had been forced to alter building and modernization plans. Actually...
...Rumford, a title that Benjamin Thompson acquired through his service to the Elector of Bavaria, studied everything from biology to how to build a better fireplace. By careful study of air currents and the flow of warm and cold air in fireplaces he developed the throat, smoke shelf, and damper, which constitute the present non-smoking hearth...
...Federal Government last week put another credit damper on the boom. From Washington went an order to the 4,200 savings and loan institutions that supply mortgage money for about 37% of the nation's houses. From now on, they must finance new mortgages out of savings and loan repayments only, not by borrowing from the Federal Home Loan Bank. Despite other attempts to slow the boom by restricting credit (TIME, Aug. 8 et seq.), there is little evidence that they have yet had any effect. Items...
Ammunition drops from the sky, when its raining, or runs from the basin any other time. Victims are in every room. And so far, the only unfortunate incident has been over a budding chemist who found that acetic acid would not shoot. The milk shortage has put a damper on that ammunition for the time being...
Like most coaches, Ralph "Cooney" Weiland keeps a heavy damper on public displays of optimism. He's friendly, and definitely not prose to tear-shedding, but he doesn't generally "rave" about things, especially those things which concern his Crimson hockey team...