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Elephant Problems. The lone big-time survivor, Ringling Bros., last week said that business in Manhattan and Boston so far this year is down only 7% to 11% from record 1955, predicted that 1956 would be the fourth best year in its history. Ringling has valiantly tried to slash costs in recent years, e.g., by installing a centralized purchasing system, designing a new nylon Big Top which is hauled up and down by hydraulic jacks and should last three years...
...nasty slash of paradox defaces this pretty picture: though membership of the American Federation of Musicians last week stood at an alltime peak of 256,000, there are fewer jobs for U.S. musicians every month...
...fierce effect. Without it, the author could hardly convey how awful it is to be Milt, how vile it is to run from life like a frightened pig, to crush everything in the path, and in the end (as a pig's sharp trotters sometimes will) to slash your own throat...
...Senate added a provision barring any person convicted under the act from "holding any office of honor, trust or profit under the U.S.," returned the bill to the House for final passage. ¶ Pass, in the House, a resolution making "In God We Trust" the U.S. motto. ¶ Slash, in the House Appropriations Committee, $56.8 million from Administration requests for the State and Justice Departments and the U.S. Information Agency. The committee refused to authorize two new prisons, snorted at a State Department request to buy an unspecified number of "executive wastebaskets" at $27 each, turned down...
When Reed took over, American Express was suffering from the impact of World War II, which had forced it to close 100 offices, slash its staff. Charging ahead with postwar expansion plans, he cut back executive deadwood, hired all the bright young men he could find, started sending G.I.s around Europe on tours months before V-E day. Under Reed, American Express traveler's check sales have climbed 20% a year (1955 total: about $2.3 billion), outsell competitors' checks three to one. Money orders, available at 24,330 outlets (v. 12,800 in 1943), have doubled. Loans...