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...current business year, Diners' Club will probably show earnings of about $2,000,000 on billings of $200 million. Both companies have cut thousands of poor risks from their rolls, and Amexco has installed a sophisticated data processing system that sends out not only bills but prompt reminders to overdue accounts to pay up or else...
Commendable though this prompt action may be, the Secretary of State's list, by ignoring all of the senatorial and gubernatorial candidates, has failed to include some of Massachusetts's best-known people. This may just mean that the legislature really was fooled when it defeated a resolution reaffirming its faith in the reliability of the campaign reports of Senator Edward M. Kennedy...
Because World War II soldiers suffered fewer serious wound infections if they got prompt penicillin treatment, surgeons got the idea that patients could be protected against infections if they were given a hefty dose of antibiotics at the time of operation. Not so, says Scottish-trained Surgeon Frederick R. C. Johnstone. Far from giving added protection, this prophylactic use of antibiotics introduces extra hazards in the vast majority of civilian cases...
University dining hall officials have agreed to add more fresh fruit, a choice of two vegetables, and real mashed potatoes to Central Kitchen menus. The dining hall supervisors also said they would "take prompt action" on student complaints about dirty trays and silverware...
Gaudy Deficits. The speech was a manifestation of a historic development: the emergence of a broad liberal-conservative consensus that high federal taxes have been largely responsible for the sluggishness of U.S. economic growth in recent years. Among last week's voices calling for prompt and hefty tax cuts to stimulate economic growth were Hubert H. Humphrey, one of the Senate's most conspicuous liberals, and H. Ladd Plumley, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Implicit in the consensus on taxes is a recognition by liberals that Government expenditures cannot create sustainable prosperity, that individual incentives perform...