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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Indonesia's republicans. Britain's Foreign Secretary, heavy-footed Ernest Bevin, and France's wispy Robert Schuman met with Acheson and agreed with unexpected rapidity that a Western German government must be set up promptly, a decision that had been stalled for months in lower-level talks...
Canadians who had waited two years for the government to take another slice off their high-level wartime taxes got good news last week. In his budget speech, Finance Minister Doug Abbott announced that the government would reduce its revenue from income taxes by 32%. Accordingly, he took 750,000 taxpayers off the lists by raising the exemptions from $750 to $1,000 for a single person and from $1,500 to $2,000 for a married couple with no children.* For those who still had to pay, the rates were trimmed. The new rates and exemptions would be retroactive...
...before his stockholders in Springfield, Mass, last week, he was wearing such a long face that the stockholders braced themselves for bad news. It came fast enough. The company's new orders, Pendleton reported, had sagged by mid-March to $11 million, less than one-sixth their 1948 level. As the news reached Wall Street, a wave of selling dropped American Woolen's stock 6⅛ points to 28⅝, the lowest since...
...this price-cutting a forerunner of serious trouble? In Chicago, Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, said: all the signs pointed toward a sustained high level of profits and employment, if U.S. businessmen would "lead the process of downward price adjustment, not fight...
...suggest that landlords be allowed to increase their rents freely up to an additional 30 percent, with all boosts over that level being reported to the office of the Housing Expeditor. Would that cause added inflation? Far from it; the additional money would be much better off in the hands of the landlord who would use it to renovate his property or to put up new housing . . . Claude G. Richie...