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...Arthur Burns, has sometimes complained that the Fed has been forced to shoulder too much of the burden of fighting inflation-will only gradually relax its tight grip on the nation's money supply. In late summer, the board indulged in a bout of miserliness that resulted in sky-high prime lending rates and shortages of funds for mortgages...
...cotton) is no longer very stable. Demand for all grades is so greatly outstripping supply that the price of raw cotton is about 650 a lb., v. 250 a year ago. In Atlanta, a decorator showing drapery samples cautions: "Don't choose anything with cotton-it's sky-high." In Bar Harbor, Me., a manufacturer of sea bags says that he is going out of business because he cannot get any more duck cloth. In San Francisco, Levi Strauss & Co. has begun informally to ration jeans and other denim goods to clothing stores. Women's Wear Daily...
...that country as a potentially important market for U.S. farm products. The sales accounted for more than one-fifth of the 60% rise in U.S. agricultural exports in the past fiscal year, to about $13 billion. The Soviet deal was not entirely responsible for the present farm shortages and sky-high prices. Japanese and Europeans bought far greater amounts than usual of U.S. agricultural goods last year...
...women's champion of the world now," crowed Robert L. Riggs, 55, about his $12,500 win over Margaret Smith Court, 30. Serving taunting sidearm twisters, sky-high lobs and-surprise!-zinging aces, Riggs took just 57 minutes to defeat Mrs. Court, the current queen of women's tennis...
...simply too weak. Last week, when results of the first full month of Phase III were reported in Washington, their predictions turned out to be disturbingly accurate. In short, the Government confirmed what has become the bane of every householder and a prime topic of conversation across the U.S.-sky-high prices...