Word: di
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Lucia di Lammermoor, with Lily Pons, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Giuseppe Valdengo...
...Korea and the U.N. retreat. Consumers, fearful that war production would wipe out civilian goods, started a great wave of panic buying. Department stores, whose business normally skids after Christmas, found sales skyrocketing-and prices right along with them. To try to stop the rise, Price Boss Mike Di Salle put ceilings on all prices. The effect was to reward the chiselers who had already jacked up their prices and punish those who had tried to hold the line...
...Boss Mike Di Salle reluctantly cleared the way for a new batch of price rises last week. Acting under the Capehart Amendment to the Defense Production Act, he issued an order permitting some 100,000 businessmen to ask for price boosts if their costs have risen. Among the items affected: clothing, tobacco, wines and liquors, gasoline, drugs and cosmetics, coal, meat and other foods. Automakers, who have already boosted prices about 9% since Korea, got special orders of their own; they may now increase prices as much as 5%. For a man who had once denounced the Capehart Amendment...
...N.A.M. turned its attention to domestic problems, heard a forthright attack by Price Boss Mike Di Salle on N.A.M. policies. Even though he knew NA.M.'s arguments against price controls, e.g., free competition is more effective than Government meddling, Di Salle didn't think they stood up. Besides, said he: "I am not convinced that spokesmen for the N.A.M. speak for the majority of American businessmen." U.S. Chamber of Commerce Economist Emerson P. Schmidt fired back. Said he: "OPS has had little to do with stopping price increases, and in all conscience should not grab credit for below...
...visiting director of a London rubber firm, his plantation manager and nine policemen who were in his heavily guarded escort were ambushed and killed. Same day the Communists sabotaged the Singapore train 20 miles from Kuala Lumpur, killed five passengers and injured 20. Aboard the train was the Yang di-Pertuan Besar, Malayan ruler of Negri Sembilan. Said His Highness: "It was a terrifying experience." Loyal Negri Sembilan Malays, hitherto neutral, began honing their parangs (long knives) for anti-Communist action. The planters, under a new British general, Sir Robert Lockhart, are punching hard at the Communists. British score (since...