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...Stab in the Dark." The sales slowdown caused Kaiser-Frazer Corp. to revise its production schedules to get a firmer footing in the low-priced field. Instead of making two higher-priced Kaisers for every low-priced Henry J, it reversed the ratio. And automen who were talking about raising car prices were taking a hard second look...
...naval power based on the island chain could hold Communism in check almost everywhere along Asia's rimland. Needed: U.S. pressure and guidance for firmer governments, U.S. training and equipment for better Asian armies...
...moment after Truman had spoken, old friends seemed firmer friends and uncertain friends seemed surer. Britain was first and firmest. It immediately put its Far Eastern Fleet in MacArthur's command. Churchill found the right phrase for the action: "An inescapable duty." France found itself a cabinet (see FOREIGN NEWS). Germany, which feels that it may be the next Korea, found new heart...
...believe, however, that his diagnosis of the "insidious forces" is mistaken, and that they will require a much firmer opposition than he advocates. Women in clubs are no distraction to study as one doesn't study there anyway. Women in classes are a slight distraction because there is so little opportunity for conversation. Fortunately Lamont and the dorms are not yet coed...
According to the folklore of Wall Street, a rising market needs a periodic shaking out to give it firmer footing for a new rise. Such a shakeout might well come, simply because enough people think it will and, by selling in preparation for the shakeout, cause it to happen. But there was no reason that it had to happen. "This market," chirpily insisted Wall Street Analyst Ben Davis, "is a one-way street, which will run without appreciable reaction up to the dead-end marker...