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...above the present world price of about 23? a Ib., U.S. cotton exporters complain that they cannot compete in world markets. So the Government gives them an 8½?-a-lb. export subsidy. But this distresses U.S. textile makers, who must pay 33? a Ib. for their cotton and howl that they are being swamped by imported textiles made from U.S. cotton that foreign producers buy at the low world price...
Gangster Manqué. When Miller keeps his voice (and his vice) down to a low howl, the book is good. Gentle accounts of his tailor father and his simple-minded sister are touched with skill, restraint and humor. More than the ranting, they help explain the near-psychopathic, angry compassion Miller felt for the sufferers in the suffocating world of Myrtle Avenue and Delancey Street. In a man more vicious, this anger might have made a gangster. In a man more conventional, it might have led to the kind of ambition that drove so many slum children to escape...
Allowing for regional tastes, few could fault such Page One coverage-as far as it went. The trouble was that it did not go far enough. Something was missing, and last week the nation's press finally discovered what that something was. Suddenly, the headlines began to howl: in the Dallas News (MARKET TUMBLES IN ITS WORST DAY SINCE '29 CRASH), in the Providence, R.I., Journal (NEW YORK STOCK MARKET COLLAPSES), in the San Francisco Chronicle (STOCKS PLUNGE...
...When the government proposed boosting the tax on the awnings of sidewalk cafés from 60∧ a square yard to $25, café owners threatened to strike, coffee lovers raised a howl, and the Confederation of Commerce and Tourism dispatched an official delegation to the Finance Minister, a Christian Democrat. Result: the tax on shade was raised to only...
Once, when the Chaplins were indulging their habit of flickering a Chaplin film on the portable screen, ten-year-old Victoria asked: "Is that my grandfather?" Victoria herself never stops acting. If Charlie tells her to laugh, she can howl uproariously; when he tells her to cry, tears well and flow...