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...entrance to the Infirmary the reception desk has been taken out from under the stairs and placed out in the open. This move will lessen the confusion both of visitors and ill men coming into the Infirmary...
...Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. FTC's first Robinson-Patman Act cases were closed this week. Dismissed were the complaints filed against Kraft-Phenix Cheese and Bird & Son. Inc. (TIME, Oct. 12). In the Kraft case FTC held that this company's price rating did not lessen or injure competition. In the Bird case, which involved selling floor coverings to Montgomery Ward & Co. for less than the price to retailers, FTC held that the lower price was justified by difference in costs. Moreover Bird no longer sold to retailers, distributing through jobbers who get the same treatment...
...inspired his disciples with their oft-repeated "pangs of remorse for the suffering we cause the Mahatma by our unworthiness." Smugly the Times of London editorialized its "profound satisfaction," noted that the executive committee described Britain and India as "the exploiter and the exploited." Even this did not lessen Britain's "profound satisfaction," the Times explicitly declared, because it "seems to have been inserted largely to save the faces of Nehru and his immediate followers...
...suggestion that bishops of the Church of England should not vote for the bill because remarriage after divorce is contrary to the traditions of the Church of England. . . . One of the merits of the bill is that it would promote morality"-i.e., tend by making remarriage easier to lessen the temptation to adultery. "I give general support to this bill," concluded the Bishop of Birmingham, "not because of concessions to a semipagan community, but because it seems to be legislation in accordance with the spirit of Christ...
...grade and quality, substantially increase the cost of golf balls to retailers and the public and to discriminate against small business enterprises." A separate count under the Robinson-Patman Act charged discrimination in price "between different purchasers of golf balls of like grade and quality, the effect being to lessen competition and create monopoly...