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...also refused to issue fast tax write-off certificates to help expand production of steel and five other goods (commercial aircraft, aviation fuel, titanium melting, titanium processing and taconite iron ore). The defense expansion goals have been filled, said Flemming. Actually, more plant expansion now would make steel even scarcer by diverting it to new plants that would not be in production until...
...their few stone weapons and tools they did not make for themselves but got from Stone Age neighbors. In spite of the mountain cold, they wear only G-strings and their little grass huts contain nothing but ashes from their fires. Food is usually scarce, and women are scarcer. Male births among the Pygmies, says Father Gusinde, outnumber female births four to one, and young Pygmy women are apt to be stolen by big, bad lowlanders. "Good number of bachelors roaming around," says Anthropologist Gusinde...
...midst of unsurpassed prosperity, money was scarcer in the U.S. last week than at any time since the Depression. Major U.S. banks, struggling to meet the massive demands of business for plant expansion, increased the prime rate (minimum interest charged the biggest, most reliable borrowers) from 3¾% to 4%. By upping the price of money to the highest level it has reached in 23 years, bankers hoped to stretch available credit to satisfy the pyramiding requirements of established customers. Smaller businessmen will be paying at least 5% for loans, while many companies that have not set up lines...
...Scarcer the Better. What makes a stamp valuable? "The older they get," says Henry Harmer, "the scarcer they get, and the greater the value." Also, unlike most valuables, rare stamps cannot be successfully forged or price-rigged. Stamp lovers are the world's biggest collecting fraternity; with more than 150,000 different kinds of stamps to choose from, most are philatelists for fun, and for life. "Stamp collecting," says Bernard Harmer, "is like malaria. Once you've had it, you never get it out of your system...
...Hungary, one listener kept shaking his head during the speaker's explanation of Communist successes in supplying more goods at lower prices. "Why are you shaking your head like that?"demanded the speaker. "Well," said the listener, "I was around to all the markets today and goods were scarcer and prices higher than ever." "That is a serious error, Comrade," said the speaker. "You should try to go to the market less and read the newspaper more." ¶I In Bulgaria, they quip that the Communists have raised the standard of living so high the country...