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...about its price policies: regardless of the reasons for the dangerous price situation, the responsibility for correcting it was "squarely up to businessmen. Other economic groups must cooperate. But it is to the risk-takers of our system that the public logically looks for risk-taking." Consumer prices have outrun consumer purchasing power and "price increases, with some significant exceptions, also ran ahead of costs and thus brought a sharp expansion of profits in 1946 and through the first quarter of 1947. . . . Abnormally high earnings such as these cannot last. Many prices today are badly out of line and must...
...began clicking in the field events and surged past Brown. But Rhode Island's cinder entries had already sewed up the meet. Running like frightened gazelles, they had out-scored the Varsity 38 to 2. Only Wes Flint, who grabbed two easy wins in the hurdles, was able to outrun the visitors...
Science may yet save the musk deer. Perfume chemists in modern laboratories are working hard to perfect a synthetic musk odor. Meanwhile, the deer himself (carrying his hairy, walnut-sized pouch at the base of his abdomen) will try to outrun his pursuers...
...Coach Frank Keaney of Rhode Island State. Long ago he quit concentrating on defense and worked up an exaggerated fast-break style. Says he: "We will give anybody 100 points if we can get 101." Every man on his squad knows that he has to throw rather than dribble, outrun rather than outskill the opposition-and keep running. The fans love...
...Dusen. A note that ran through many of the speeches was clearly struck by Dr. Henry P. Van Dusen, president of Union Theological Seminary: "The knowledge and skills of modern civilization have outrun the moral and spiritual resources for their direction and control." Speaking of world Protestantism, Van Dusen said: "Inevitably, global war put the World Christian Movement to its severest test. What possibility was there of maintaining a world program of expansion amidst world-severing conflict? . . . What reality could be preserved by a universal spiritual fellowship, by a World Community...