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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detective Story is much the same brand of documentary melodrama as Kingsley's Dead End and Men in White. Wherever it can, the play lets truth walk side by side with good theater, but in a pinch it is always theater that has right of way. Among other things, Detective Story pleads that mercy should season justice. But too often it lets hokum season realism, and raises salient questions only to provide inconclusive answers...
...stock markets, which have been in the doldrums for months, this week got some long-awaited good news. The Federal Reserve Board cut the cash required for stock purchases from 75% to 50% of the stock price, the first margin reduction in over two years. FRB said it was relaxing margins "in the light of the general credit situation"; credit on stocks was near an alltime low. In effect, FRB was saying in another way that the danger of inflation was about gone...
...Then U.S. farmers, with wheat bringing $2.60 a bu., laughed down the proposed world price of $2 a bu. Now the price of wheat was down to around $2.25 a bu. and-with a huge carryover and another bumper crop in prospect-a price of $1.98 might soon look good...
...million. This, he conceded, "is not small change by any means. On the other hand, it is considerably less than what we are spending to support the price of potatoes." In view of the airlines' importance to the economy and to national defense, he thought a good air transport system would be cheap at many times the price. But he favored the Hoover Commission's proposal that subsidies be plainly labeled, instead of being masked as mail...
...A.B.S. claimed it by right of conquest. This week, in what looked like an attempt to freeze out the U.S. firm completely, Lloyd's merged with the British Corporation Register. Thus Lloyd's took over classification of virtually all ships that fly the British flag, and a good percentage of ships of other nations...