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...bread and especially meat and dairy products will become so acute by next spring that strikes and even riots could break out. These disorders are most likely to occur in provincial towns, but not in Moscow and other big cities that hold high priorities for food distribution. The distress slaughter of cattle last autumn for lack of fodder will inevitably make meat scarce until at least 1980. The government apparently decided to sacrifice animal feed for the sake of bread, the staple of the Russian diet. But farmers, who are allowed to keep livestock on their small private plots...
...permission to make the same number of flights. The Secretary approved this limited schedule for only 16 months-long enough, he said, to determine whether the advantages of developing supersonic flight across the North Atlantic were outweighed by the damage the Concorde might do to the environment and the distress it could cause to people on the ground. If the flights created any serious problems, Coleman said, they would be stopped "forthwith...
Bringing Up Baby at 4, 7:35, 11:10 (no 11:10 show Fri. and Sat.), Damsel in Distress...
...recession coming, and warned all the stores to hold down inventory. Result: not only did Federated's branches avoid the glut of unsold goods that plagued competitors last Christmas, but they had the money and warehouse space to start buying again in early 1975. While other stores were holding distress sales, says Lazarus, "we were able to get back into the market and buy desirable merchandise at desirable prices." A further result: inventory problems sank first-quarter 1975 profits of Sears, Roebuck & Co. and J.C. Penney Co. by an average of 74% below the 1974 period, but Federated bobbed...
...leave his job at year's end. Would Richardson be interested in that position? Another interim possibility was offered. (Richardson has not said what it was, but Administration sources suggested that he recently was sounded out for the CIA post.) Ford wanted Richardson to return to offset any distress among Republican moderates over Rocky's removal from consideration and to enhance another vice-presidential prospect...