Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they are stuffed with Government "remedies" and the less they hear about Thinking Big. There is only one right approach to taxes, and that is for the Government to reduce its spending enough to permit reductions without unbalancing the budget. What the economy needs far more than a tax holiday is a holiday from Government gimmicks...
...looked like a holiday. In their Sabbath best, 57,000 ladies' dressmakers poured from their cubicle workrooms one day* last week and onto the pavement of twelve mid-Manhattan blocks along and around Seventh Avenue, the throbbing heart of the New York City garment trade that produces 72% of all U.S. dresses. Babbling happily in the accents of Poland, Puerto Rico, Italy and Brooklyn, they marched half a mile up Eighth...
...while prices to the housewife dropped more than 30% as the market broadened and the quality of chickens improved. In 1947 the U.S. per capita consumption of chicken was 18.1 Ibs.; last year it was 25.3 Ibs. Success in broilers encouraged turkey breeders to try contract farming. Originally a holiday bird, turkeys are now year-round fare; production is up, and as prices dropped, per capita consumption almost doubled...
...high points of the show are mere holiday spots in the year. Much oftener there is ordinary Saturday-night hoopla, not to speak of Monday-morning doldrums. The show is thoroughly professional in the sense that it is thoroughly routine. The tunes seem sold by the dozen, the gags come packaged and ready to serve. There is not much of Ziegfeld's idea of the body beautiful, and there must be too much trite and tired business for even the tired businessman...
...hockey team has a record of six and eight, but all its losses were against non-Ivy opponents. The holiday western road trip proved disastrous as far as the team's won-lost record is concerned. The six faced off against some of the most powerful teams in the nation including the U.S. national amatuers. This week they will meet Northeastern at Watson Rink Thursday night and Dartmouth at Hanover Saturday...