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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Propagation of the Faith, the job in which Chicago's late Cardinal Stritch never had a chance to serve (TIME, June 9). The cardinal: Russian-born Gregory Peter XV Agagianian, patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians, the church's top expert on Russian affairs, and often mentioned as a future Pope...
...buildup is likely to be slow and cautious. For some time businessmen have tended toward lower inventories because heavy inventories are expensive and improved transportation and increased industrial capacity have made materials easy to get. Many retail stores are ordering smaller quantities more often, getting by with a 30-day or 60-day supply instead of the 90-day supply they might have carried a few years ago. Manufacturers are doing the same. Steel customers are buying more of their steel from warehouses instead of directly from the mills, even though prices are as much as 30% higher, because...
...market is cluttered with so many different styles that the homemakers often do not know what to buy. On the production level, there are some 4,000 different manufacturers, each with styles of his own. On the retail level, complains Executive Vice President Jim Best of the Southern Retail Furniture Association, there are many fast-buck artists who high-pressure consumers into buying furniture that does not suit their taste. Says Best: "The American housewife has lost her confidence in all but a few established furniture dealers. But she is still so confused with the wide choice that she often...
WEST GERMANY will remove last restrictions on investment by foreigners to attract new capital. German yields, especially in bonds, often are almost double those...
...firms have often taken notice of international standards only when they were being hurt. The U.S. movie industry fought for and got an international film standard based on U.S. standards (with the sound track on the left edge of the film as it goes through a projector) only after the Germans ate into its foreign markets and threatened to establish German standards with the sound track on the other side. Result: U.S. movie companies can distribute worldwide, get 50% of their income from abroad...