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...sing." But finally she has had enough and goes home to her parents, not telling Jimmy that she is pregnant. Her friend Helena (deftly played by Claire Bloom), a visitor in their garret, remains. Jimmy calls her an "evil-minded little virgin," but she becomes his mistress. In the end, his wife returns; the baby has miscarried and Alison is now broken enough to resume in resignation the aimless life in the attic flat...
Congress' refusal to raise the ceiling on the long-term end of the Government bond market has forced the Treasury to do all its financing in the inflationary short end. Between now and Jan. 1, the Treasury has to refinance almost $12 billion in old debt and borrow $7 billion in new cash. So much money borrowed in the short end has created a strong pressure to shove all interest rates higher. The process is already operating. Last week, as the 91-day bill rate went up to nearly 4.2% from 3.979% on the sale a week before...
...ceiling, which now has turned out to be no ceiling at all but rather a prime cause of higher interest rates. Once the public is educated to that fact, said Ike. "Congress will feel the heat of truth about this matter and do something." At week's end the public was about to be educated. In Washington, the Federal Housing Administration prepared to raise the home mortgage rate from 5½% to 5¾%. a step expected to drain off financing for G.I. home loans, still legally limited...
Despite the enormous growth of giant corporations, which pessimists predict will kill off small companies, the U.S. now has a third more independent businesses than it had at the end of World War II. They are growing faster than the population; the ratio of business enterprises to the general population is one-fifth higher than...
...almost double the list price. Layoffs caused by lack of steel continued to mount. General Electric Co. began laying off 1,400 workers in its heavy appliance manufacturing center at Louisville, said it will have to close down its entire operation employing 11,000 unless the steel strike ends within three weeks. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. last week laid off 521 workers at two Midwestern plants, will drop 1,200 more by the end of the month. At General Motors Corp.'s AC Spark Plug Division plant in Flint, Mich, and Harrison Radiator Division in Lockport, N.Y., 900 employees...