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...line of danger: between September and October, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week, the Consumer Price Index (1947-49: 100) jumped 0.5% to hit an all time high of 117.7. The rise, the seventh in eight months, meant that the cost of living is now 2.4% dearer than a year ago. Main reason for the October jump: higher price tags on the new cars...
...years-hotelmen and other businessmen are entitled to collect extra pennies in exchange for U.S. currency, importers can happily use their own valuable dollars for purchases abroad. But the premium is less pleasing to exporters, who must sell their products for U.S. funds but pay their production costs in dearer Canadian dollars. Last week it was the exporters' turn for mild satisfaction: the Canadian dollar slipped on the New York market to 100.5 U.S. cents, its lowest level since June...
...their old habits and run the country with a light touch. Once they eased up on the compulsion, 51% of the collective farm members walked out, worsening the food situation. With penalties on workers abolished, output dropped. Said Budapest Red Chief Istvan Kovacs: "We are producing less, worse and dearer, and at the same time we want to live better." The Reds lopped off 200,000 civil servants from the top-heavy bureaucracy, but Hungary's industry, its initiative sapped by years of being told what to do, did not know how to employ the men, and they thronged...
...mean his children are dearer to you than your own?" Dr. Small asked. "Yes," said Edith. "You don't know how to invest. Buy electronic stock and get ten percent." Just to prove she knew how to invest if her husband didn't, Edith gave Jules Lack $10,000 of her $125,000 inheritance. He promised to pay her back, with 8% interest, in September...
Nothing has been dearer to the surgeon's heart than the dream of a machine to replace the heart-by pumping a patient's blood during an operation. To be thoroughly effective, it must also do the work of the lungs and oxygenate the blood. Only with such equipment could the surgeon perform delicate operations with the heart in his hand, in full view, and with no blood flowing through it. Last week Philadelphia's Dr. John H. Gibbon Jr. made the dream a reality...