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...attend all the productions will only see two or three of them, and each show will cut into the other's ticket sales. But this is nothing: last spring theatrical activities vacillated between a choke of four and five shows one weekend and none the next, forcing an alternate glut and fast on theatergoers. As good a production as the freshman Twelfth Night never made it out of the red because of the overwhelming competition of Gilbert and Sullivan, Sartre and Chekov. Some kind of organization, or regulation of drama at Harvard is necessary to make the "drama renaissance" more...
MEAT-PRICE RISE is coming because 1957 production will drop 2% to 3% below last year's record 28 billion Ibs. Southwest drought has cut into cattle supply and hog farmers are marketing fewer porkers to avoid last year's glut. Chicago wholesale prices: beef, 7% to 16% higher than this time last year; pork, up 37% ; lamb...
...revive the Boston whiting fishery, which suffered from seasonal surpluses, by promoting frozen packages of the cheap fish throughout the year. Last week they were investigating yet another solution to the problem of supply and demand: a commodities market in sea products, to help prevent dumping during periods of glut and gouging during scarce periods...
...Glut of Side Dishes. For all his first mistakes, Eugene Meyer, known affectionately to his staff as "Butch," worked wonders. He built a national bureau to cover the Government, patterned after the Washington bureaus of the big Manhattan dailies. He developed an editorial page that, under Felix Morley, began at once to show insight and vigor, gain national prestige. By 1946, circulation had more than trebeled...
...Ottawa, where the wheat glut is the government's No. i political problem, there was such satisfaction over the orders that few people paused to consider why the Reds had placed them. In the past the Iron Curtain nations were wheat exporters themselves. The surprisingly big Soviet order for Canadian wheat, which is to be delivered to Siberia, was supposedly placed in order to spare the Russians the trouble of rail-hauling grain from the Ukraine. But if that were the case, there should be surplus grain on hand in western Russia for satellite Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary...