Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York; Oldsmobiles at $1,000 off in Dallas. Manhattan's Max Lasko (Stu runs," debaker) and even allowed $1.000 Cadillacs on were "any car selling that at discounts in Cleveland, Dallas and Miami. As a result, the National Automobile Dealers Association does not believe that dealers can even maintain the low (3%) profit margin on sales that they averaged for the first quarter. Said H. W. Robin son, general manager of Atlanta's Harry Sommers Inc. (Chrysler): "I haven't seen any profits for so long that I wouldn't know what they look like...
Freedom v. Controls. The European consumer has gained most from a sounder currency. Prices have been stable for three years, not because of controls, said Auboin, but because of genuine market forces, aided by active monetary and credit policies designed to maintain over-all equilibrium during a period of expanding production. In short, more abundant supplies kept prices down. Output of farm products was up, and production of industrial raw materials, e.g., oil, coal, etc., has gone up 60% since 1937 (the last normal prewar year). Said Auboin: "Now that supplies are becoming more abundant and inflationary tendencies are being...
...specific injunction from the Method ist General Conference to oppose racial discrimination, allow Negroes to participate in church activities as equals. But a fortnight ago the Alabama Methodist Conference adopted a resolution demanding that the General Conference pass no legislation that would interfere with Methodists' rights to maintain segregated churches, schools and assemblies...
...addition, "tattling" has bad moral connotations for Americans who have learned from earliest school days how "wicked" Benedict Arnold and his ilk are. The national ethic, which has no place for informing, they maintain, should take precedence over the whim of a committee...
...part played by European exports and imports in American trade is steadily decreasing . . . The American's first care is to maintain the privilege of a home market, the absorption capacity of which he considers to be limitless...