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Before any effective increase occurs, the U.S. will have to show itself willing to initiate significant measures to release the cramp in East-West commerce. The latest "relaxation" is nothing but a scrap thrown to clamoring critics in an effort to pacify them. Much more will have to be done before the Administration can pose as anxious to thaw frozen channels of trade...
...major breakthrough toward equality of opportunity, Texas oil workers this year have succeeded in abolishing a discriminatory "dual promotion" system, under which Negroes were hired only as laborers and could not compete with white workers for operating jobs. At Beaumont's Magnolia Petroleum Co., the first company to scrap the old system, 32 Negroes have already stepped into operating jobs, while 13 whites have been hired as laborers...
...near-senseless attacks and counterattacks, Author Heinrich has his hero make two kinds of sense. One is the unspoken sense of togetherness in the brotherhood of suffering, or as Steiner tries to put it, "By himself a man is scrap iron." The other is that courage has a logic (or a lunacy) all its own: "To fight for a conviction does not require heroism. Heroism begins where the meaninglessness of the sacrifice remains the last, only message the dead can leave behind." You Mustn't Bawl. The simple footslogger passes this test best in The Cross of Iron. Novelist...
...first-quarter record, while the Labor Department reported take home pay at a high for the month of February, 5% better than in February 1955. Structural steel fabricators closed their swollen books for February with 40% more orders than in the same month a year ago. Steel scrap rose as much as $6 a ton in one of the sharpest rises in history, and March steel output was expected to break all monthly records. As business loans continued to rise, top Manhattan banks hiked interest charges for brokers' loans on securities from 3.5% to 4%, the highest rate since...
Though nobody could find a scrap of evidence that she ever lived, Bridey died hard-even with Reporter Barker, who was frankly hoping to prove her real. Barker consoled himself and his readers with the thought that the search was really not over...