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Qualifications. In Portland, Ore., an Oregonian advertiser offered to rent a "newlyweds' dream house" to a couple with "no children under...
...bulk of these tolls will come from American steel companies, shipping iron ore from Labrador to inland American mills. Since the Mesabi iron deposits are running out while the United States' need for steel climbs, the Labrador deposits are becoming more important. The railroad and port lobbies, of course, believe that steel producers--if they need Labrador ore--shall pay for shipping it, rather than charge this cost up to the American tax-payer...
This seemingly just proposition ignores the fact that steel prices set the price for most durable and semi-durable commodities. If iron ore transportation prices rose, as they would if Canada set its own Seaway toll charges, the price of steel would rise accordingly. Thus, the American public would, in the long run, finance the Seaway--either as taxpayers footing the higher cost of steel bought by the Government, or as consumers, buying durable goods...
...Portland, Ore., Ethel Waters, 51, announced that after five more months on the road with Member of the Wedding, and one more movie, she might retire: "I'm old, I'm human and I'm tired. I'm going to see if I can live on my social security. Right now I don't make enough to pay both my bills and my taxes...
...Abbot Low Mills, 53, Republican, first vice president of the Portland (Ore.) U.S. National Bank, replacing Marriner Eccles, who resigned last June (TIME, June 25) with more than six years of a regular 14-year term to go. A lifelong banker from a banking family, Mills shares Martin's view that Federal Reserve policy should be independent and not dominated by the Treasury, a policy that Eccles helped reaffirm before he quit...