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...sold to 20th Century-Fox and grossed Au thor Frank Yerby something like $250,000). The hero of The Vixens is lean and hard; he moves with controlled grace, and he says everything softly. The girl is slim and golden, her mouth is a splash (some times a slash) of scarlet, and her perfume is faint, elusive. These two daydreams, so happily cast on any Hollywood lot or in any adolescent's bedroom, are naturally not to be frustrated by a lot of gunplay and dastardy in post-Civil War New Or leans...
...feel that the plan is working out well, and we intend to stick with it," was the official word on the 10-percent price slash at the store. "Our customers are all pleased that we have followed President Truman's voluntary price reduction program, and the resulting increased volume of sales has more than made up for our diminished profit margin...
Several other stores in the Square, including J. August Clothes, the Coop, Hayes-Bickford Cafeteria, and the Waldorf Cafeteria announced price reductions in selected items, but indicated that no general slash had been made...
Responsibility for working a way out of the bust has been left squarely in the hands of business. A presidential suggestion for industry-wide negotiations for a slash in prices, to cushion their effect, ran into an opinion of the Attorney General that any such agreements would run counter to the Sherman Anti-Trust Law and would be illegal. Since they cannot do it collectively even in the public interest, business men will have to act on their own, in self interest. The nation can only hope that their self-interest operates quickly enough...
...House had voted for a $6 billion slash. Senate Leader Bob Taft wanted a $4.5 billion cut. But young William Fife Knowland, the junior Senator from California, was determined to have $3 billion of the budget earmarked for reduction of the astronomical national debt, and that could not be done if the Senate approved the cut advocated by Ohio's Taft...