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...Skyrocket." Melvin ("Mel") Allen, 29, a tall, thin, dark-and-curly-haired, good-looking young man from Alabama, wears clothes like a fashion plate from Esquire. Mel likes to wisecrack, does it often in a pleasant, comfortable voice. Like Red Barber, Allen seldom gets ruffled. Before he turned broadcaster he was an all-round athlete at Alabama U. (nickname: "The Skyrocket") and a semi-pro ballplayer. He is one of the most versatile and accurate U.S. sportscasters. When he reads from a script, his voice has no particular accent, but when he ad libs it comes straight from Dixie. Probable...
...this has been offset by a rise in uncontrolled goods.) Corporate profits must be cut. "Unless we step in and put a stop to further increases those ceilings will crack and our battle for stability will be lost. ... It means that the cost of living will begin to skyrocket, that demands will outrace incomes in a dizzy upward spiral that can only end-and will end-in economic chaos...
Already put in fighting trim because of a special Spring practice last year, the cheerleading squad is putting on the finishing touches to their routines for this fall's football games. Feature of this year's repertoire is reputed to be a skyrocket cheer to end all such pyrotechnic displays...
There are two general ways to get more goods: by encouraging the expansion of capacity or by letting prices skyrocket until producers get in motion under the urge of big profits. The first seems preferable to Henderson and the New Dealers, and is the direction in which the U.S. is rapidly moving; the second is the theory of free-price advocates, who believe that the profit motive alone is sufficient incentive in U.S. industry...
Main point of dispute was whether prices should be allowed to go up again or not. No. 1 advocate of price dictatorship was ex-Baruch-aide General Hugh ("Old Ironpants") Johnson. Said he: "You can't stop a skyrocket advance in prices of everything merely by tying prices of a few things to the ground. There is only one way to do this job. That is by fiat. ..." William Trufant Foster was just as gloomy, told hardwaremen: "I was on the Consumers' Advisory Board of the NRA and found it was window dressing. . . . The Government...