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...products, with their lower labor costs will force our industries to cut costs and employment." Here the facts stand against them. The quantity of imports to the United States has almost directly correlated with the level of production and business at home. During boom years imports increased, and during slack years, they fell. Above all, the imports of most items have been an insignificant percentage of American consumption of that item. Woolen and worsted imports, for example, have never amounted to 2% of total U. S. consumption, and yet, the American woolen industry is strenuously opposing any tariff rate reductions...
...left. "It's hell being your own master," he says. "You work a 40-hour day instead of a 40-hour week." His pretty blonde wife, Esther-he calls her Bunny-brings the coffee, gets the meals and keeps guests from gumming up the production line. Slim, slack-clad Bunny Caniff doesn't have much to say when her talkative husband has visitors. Says she: "I'm afraid people will miss something Milt is saying...
...housetop, had gone through her back and into her stomach. ¶At four in the morning, Hector A. Orta, a small, brown-faced Puerto Rican, walked into a Times Square subway station. There were only a dozen people in the echoing cavern, but one of them-a huge, slack-faced man-was drunk. As he reeled and mumbled, the rest watched him nervously. Suddenly they shrank back against the shiny, tile walls; the drunken man was twirling a revolver. He swung around, his eyes full of cunning, and threw his free arm around the neck of the man nearest...
Passengers who had waited up to three weeks for seats on both Braniff and C.M.A., except during the short off-season slack, would question this statement. Tom Braniff questioned it immediately. Said he: "The order of the minister ... is merely one of a long series of actions unfriendly to Aerovias Braniff, but showing partiality to Pan American Airways and its Mexican subsidiary...
Missing from its usual place at the top of the list was the group from China, which this year numbers only four, instead of the normal complement of 15. Some of the slack, however, is taken in by the increase of the European delegation, and in that of students from the British West Indies to three...