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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the exception of making credit easier, the Administration's antirecession measures have principally been couched in terms of plans of things to come, and will probably not be in full swing until the end of 1958. Behind the plans lie the implicit promise that the policymakers do not intend to let things get worse. But behind the promise lies the persistent hope of the President's economic advisers -backed up, according to persistent report, by the long-distance voice of ex-Treasury Secretary George Humphrey-that the economy is really healthier than it looks and should begin...
...weeks end, after Committee Accountant Carmine Bellino gave the U.A.W. top marks for accounting procedures and no corruption. Chairman John McClellan gaveleed the hearing to a halt. In four days, little had been accomplished. Good Publilc Relations Man Reuther. with a leashed temper and soft sell, had made no new enemies. More important to him, he had even discomfited those he already...
...Farm. Oil's hopeful outlook was shared to an even greater degree by the farm-machinery industry, which started earlier on its recession and now seems to be coming out of it. With an end to the Midwest drought, and higher farm prices (see Agriculture), farmers were buying so much farm machinery that some companies are hard-pressed to keep up with demand. Massey-Ferguson. Ltd. sold more new combines and tractors between Nov. 1 and March 1 than at any other time in the past five years. Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. is well ahead of 1957, while...
After a gloomy winter, copper investors thought they saw a few signs of spring. On the New York Stock Exchange last week copper stocks rose in heavy trading. At week's end Kennecott was up 2⅜ to 88⅞, Anaconda up 2½ to 46⅞, Magma 5¼ to 47. Behind the push was a ½? rise to 23½? a Ib. in copper price at custom smelters, which normally supply about 15% of U.S. refined copper. On the London Metal Exchange, where world prices are set and fluctuate with daily sales, copper closed...
Danny plays a master in a British public school who takes a holiday in Sussex to look for a lost Roman bronze. While he is tunneling away beneath an improbable-looking ruin, a traveling circus pitches tent in the vicinity, and where does Danny's tunnel end? Spang in the middle of the lion act. Danny survives the lion's den-only to be consumed with passion for the girl on the flying trapeze (Pier Angeli). But this is madness! He is already engaged to Miss Letitia Fairchild (Patricia Cutts), a powerful young woman who will stand...