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...England's F. Perkins Ltd. The firm has expanded its operations in France, doubling its stockholdings in Standard-Hotchkiss, a French tractor maker, to 50%. But energetic Al Thornbrough still looks to the U.S. for the even bigger market that Massey-Ferguson must have before it can shuck all its troubles. He has purchased Mid-Western Industries of Wichita, Kans., a leader in the light industrial-equipment field, doubled the size of the Detroit tractor plant. Before long, he will announce a brand-new line of larger tractors designed especially for the U.S. market...
...forced feeding may be dangerous. Not so, says Dr. Williams: the feebler the patient, the less resistance she can offer. The starved body (some adult women patients weighed as little as 50 Ibs.) soon responds to food. Sometimes the mere fact of being well fed helps the patient to shuck off the emotional problem. In any case, a starving patient is not a proper subject for any other treatment...
Father Rosi had become a missionary after all, and it was only a question of time before he had permission to shuck his soutane and go to work on the oldest profession. He never lectures his girls. "Moral strictures serve for nothing," he explains. "I am like a fisherman with his line-it is impossible to persuade the fish to bite; they must do that themselves if they like the bait. What is necessary is to give these women the consciousness of human dignity. Then one bright day they change their way of life themselves...
CAPITAL AIRLINES, whose British-made Viscounts pioneered turboprop service in the U.S., is in such deep trouble that it has asked CAB to restore subsidy and shuck off some money-losing short runs. Capital, basically a line of short routes with high operating costs, expects to lose $2.5 million this year, $7.5 million next year. CAB is likely to refuse subsidy plea, but may let line drop some routes...
Well aware that Poland now wants to shuck off Soviet domination, that all of Eastern Europe is in ferment, and that anything any Western nation can do to help break the Soviet grip would help, the old Chancellor set out with realistic caution. He wanted more trade with Poland, hoping that from this mutually advantageous first step diplomatic relations might follow. As a beginning, he would like to send a trade mission to Warsaw headed not by a trader but by a political figure...