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...Airplane Co. payroll affects one person in six, Boeing President William Allen said the company's employment there would remain at 30,000. In Dallas, Economist Fred Carlson of Dresser Industries predicted: "Whatever reduction there may be in defense expenditures will not be enough to make the economy sag." Said Gordon M. Jones, president of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce: "Let the budget be balanced, let the dollar be stabilized, and business will take in stride the curtailment of defense spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: After the Truce | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

...Another sag in "Americanism" that brought DAR action was the "unamerican" flying of another flag on an equal level with that of the United States. A DAR agent found the Un guilty of this and the outraged Daughters hastened to have the equal arrangement changed. When the Norfolk Navy Yard repeated the insult, they passed a resolution demanding a Congressional investigation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fellow Immigrants | 5/8/1953 | See Source »

...Sag Clothesline. For housewives plagued by sagging clotheslines, Louisville's Puritan Cordage Mills began national sale of a line which stays taut. Made of cotton braided over a Fiberglas core, it does not stretch appreciably even under the weight of a full load of wet clothes. Price: 89? per 50-ft. length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...tense, slashing planes, a half-sized Slave, weary and hangdog. His women are more expressionistic, seem more like mere sketches for future work. His nude Madeleine, Nude Leaning on the Hands and Reclining Nude in Chemise are roughly scooped out to emphasize a side-slung hip, the languid sag of a relaxed body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painter with a Knife | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...gallon jugs, moonshine sells in cities for about $2 a fifth. The deliveries are made by a new breed of rumrunner, drivers of souped-up cars which can hit 100 m.p.h. All but the amateurs equip them with truck springs in the rear to eliminate the telltale sag caused by heavy loads. The average fee for transportation is around $1.00 a gallon. Sold undiluted at the still for $4 a gallon, the juice still leaves the moonshiner with an operating profit of 200% or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIQUOR: PopskulPs Progress | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

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