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...Janeiro, 36-year-old José Lourival de Santana had no such luck. José's nose had been neatly amputated by a burglar's well-aimed razor slash. He was rushed to a hospital. A tidy policeman dropped the nose into a garbage can. Young Dr. Paulo Marques de Souza thought José's nose could be saved. First it had to be found. It was-after six hours among the garbage...
...watch such scarce items as men's suits, topcoats and dress shirts skyrocket in price. You say that competition-not Government regulation-is a factor in preventing inflation. The mentioned apparel is so scarce that it would be asinine to believe that competitors would immediately slash prices when they know they can all get and maintain higher prices. True, after a period of time, supply equaling demand, prices will take care of themselves without regulation. But in the interim the consumer would take a sound beating...
...notion that Potsdam once & for all had turned Germany into a country of fields and pastures, with a factory here & there to relieve the bucolic monotony. Actually, under the general terms of the Potsdam Agreement, Germany could have a substantial light industry. The Potsdam objective was to slash Germany's heavy industrial war potential. The Germans were to live at a level "not exceeding" the European average. Potsdam specifically provided for German imports to meet "Germany's approved postwar peacetime needs." What were the approved needs? What was the average living standard? Obviously the Potsdam policy needed interpretation...
...Zenith. Two years after Main Street, Novelist Lewis did a similar job for the U.S. small city (Zenith) and the U.S. businessman. George F. Babbitt, the rotund realtor, trapped in the dilemmas of middle-aged marriage and infidelity and the saurian rip and slash of pitiless business competition, was Lewis' most human and lovable character, as Babbitt was his most mature work...
Impatient Populace. The spread of the Vigilante idea among law-abiding Britons was symptomatic of their fast-ebbing patience with continuing war restrictions.* The Brighton pioneers, had shown how to slash through the jungle of legal red tape that was keeping usable houses vacant. But it would need more than a practical protest to relieve the country's acute housing pains. There was a physical shortage of nearly a million houses, which only new construction (estimated to take four years) could provide. But the Guv'nor and his Vigilantes were a warning: Britain's new Government, Tory...