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...Capitol Hill last week: shrink on July 1.
...deep-red budget, the President had adopted Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson's tough-minded case for standing pat on taxes (see box, next page). All that Ike asked Congress to do was extend for another year, at present rates, the corporation and excise taxes now scheduled to shrink back to pre-Korea size on July...
Girls, why starve to shrink your derri...
...when the Big Three put out a compact car, the U.S. may see a complete reshuffling of its autos. Sales of today's medium-priced models, which are taking the worst sales licking, may shrink further, and some cars may drop out entirely. In their place, bigger, flashier Fords, Chevies and Plymouths may move up to fill the gap between low-priced and high-priced autos. At the bottom will be a new market for utility autos, simply for transportation...
...mile limit, first suggested by a Dutch scholar back in 1703 when that distance was about the maximum range of a cannon. Though cannon range is no longer a criterion, the U.S. still has powerful reasons for not wanting to see nations stretch their territorial claims farther and thus shrink by hundreds of thousands of miles the great body of water known as the High Seas. For one thing, argued U.S. Delegate Arthur Dean (Korean armistice negotiator and onetime law partner of John Foster Dulles), enemy submarines can find easier sanctuary in extended and therefore deeper territorial seas. Furthermore...