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Regulation W, the wartime credit curb which required buyers to plunk down one-third in cash and pay off the rest in 15 months, expired last week. But as the installment credit bottle was uncorked, most businessmen seemed to have lost their taste for the heady stuff...
...husbands refuse to plunk down their hard-earned dollars for these backdated, repelling suits of armor, I'm sure the money-mad creators of fashion will once again create as we desire. I for one could not stand to see my lovely little wife turning blue as she gasped for air in a laced vise, nor would I enjoy the clank and clatter of new form-building pads as she tripped lightly by. Let the unshapely change their forms at will but I like my wife as is and prefer dresses that show...
...audience asked him, "What you got in there-dirty pictures?" After that, the Flames started looking for a new third. Two years ago, they found a bearded West Indian named Tiger Haynes ("he's a frantic guy"), and stole him from a trio called Plink, Plank and Plunk...
...cherished American custom of buying the good things of life on the installment plan has been greatly restricted by Regulation W, a wartime emergency measure. Buyers have had to plunk down one-third of the purchase price on cars, refrigerators, etc., pay off the rest within 15 months. Last week, President Truman said he would soon scrap Regulation W as he does not feel that such war measures should be retained indefinitely. But he hoped Congress would make consumer credit control permanent. Marriner S. Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, told the House Banking and Currency Committee...
...lower slopes of the Green Mountains, the snow was almost gone. As the dazzling sun shone through the sugar bushes (maple groves), it glinted on some 3,000,000 tin buckets hanging on the grey trees. This week, as the weather turned warm, the groves tinkled with the "plunk plunkplunk plunkplink" of maple sap dropping into the buckets. "Dollars droppin'," Vermonters said, as they paused to listen. It was sugaring time...