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Short-Range. The short-range objectives are supposed to establish sane and honest conditions for freer trade in Western Europe as soon as possible, and to prod its industry into more competition and greater efficiency. The U.S. Congress will expect to be shown considerable progress toward these objectives when it considers iQSo's EGA appropriations early next year. The objectives...
...bills left to pick on, the Senate began worrying about economy all over again. For two days it haggled over the Administration's proposal for boosting the salaries of some 250 key U.S. officials. Harry Truman sent an urgent letter to Vice President Alben Barkley to prod the Senate. The reason the proposed increases seemed so large, he argued, was that they had been so long in coming. Wrote the President...
...Good Clothes Hanger. Working with a less accomplished model, the photographer might spend hours trying to prod and push her into the proper pose. But not with Lisa. With a dancer's discipline and grace, she responds instantly to the photographer's every direction, almost before it is spoken. Her body (bust and hips 34 in.) is so supple that she can pull in her normally 23-inch waist to 18 inches. She has the gift of mimicry every good model needs, and a keen fashion sense. Once, she appeared 103 times in a single issue...
...American Woolen's profits tumbled 19.8% in 1949's first quarter, President Moses Pendleton bravely tried to prod waiting buyers into action by boosting prices. Last week, conceding that his bluff had been called, Pendleton trimmed an average 9% off the price of fabrics for men's & women's clothes. That meant, the trade estimated, that men's suits next spring would be $2.50 to $5 cheaper...
...juridical tortoise sometimes tried to prod the hare awake. It hinted that Congress might liberalize some of its laws. It would not stand in the way of legislation leading toward the welfare state...