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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Five-Year Plan, or Piatiletka, was a dramatic slogan as well as an effective method of primitive state planning. But when the sixth Piatiletka arrived last year, the word had lost its power for millions of Russian workers, case-hardened by 30 years of ceaseless urging to achieve ever higher production norms. Last week the Soviet leaders indicated that they were ready to drop the old Piatiletki for a more relaxed method of planning and executing the progress of their national economy...
...jettisoned its laughter on the sponsor's orders two seasons ago, its ratings fell in the silence. Just to make sure, the advertising agency tried an experiment with the show in two cities: one station showed it with laughter and another without. The laugh-packed version ran 25% higher in its ratings...
...high-ceilinged back parlor of the Richmond mansion of Virginia's late Novelist Ellen Glasgow, the deans and presidents of twelve colleges and universities in the area gathered one day last week for a kind of meeting that is all too rare in the world of U.S. higher education. All members of the Richmond Area University Center, they had come not only to exchange ideas but to plan a series of projects together that would have been impossible for any one campus to try alone. In the last ten years, the educators had learned an important lesson: the best...
...Government permits inventory to be figured by the cost of the last stock bought during the year, on the theory that it is the first to be sold. Thus the profit on an item costing $2 in January and $3 in December is figured on the basis of the higher cost, thus a lower tax. Though designed (in 1938) for industries that handle only a few materials, LIFO has long been eyed by big department stores as a possible taxsaver. Last week Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. won a test case in court against the Government that reaffirmed...
...first used FIFO-first in, first out-which computes the year's profits on the basis of the first stock bought during the year. Though FIFO is less advantageous during inflation, when costs are steadily rising, many stores prefer it because it guards them against higher taxes should inventory costs begin to fall. Companies cannot switch back and forth; Government permission is needed to do so. Gambling on continued price rises, Macy's asked permission to use LIFO in 1942. The Government refused, but in 1947 allowed a Baltimore department store, Hutzler Brothers, to file under LIFO after...