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...time that our politicians make a stab at being statesmen. Such an effort will be even more crucial when the new Congress, with its close party balance, meets in January...
...Stab in the Dark." The sales slowdown caused Kaiser-Frazer Corp. to revise its production schedules to get a firmer footing in the low-priced field. Instead of making two higher-priced Kaisers for every low-priced Henry J, it reversed the ratio. And automen who were talking about raising car prices were taking a hard second look...
...enough defense work and take materials out of civilian production before they are needed in defense production. They are discriminatory, ill-considered and dangerous. They are a grievous blunder . . . The Federal Reserve Board, living in a world of banker mentality and unaware of basic production problems, has . . . made a stab in the dark and the knife is in the backs of America's low-income families...
...insidiously balmy Roman spring, Karen Stone, past 50, discovers that her life is slipping away. She has been a successful actress and great beauty; now, after a ludicrous stab at playing Juliet, she is through with the stage and, even worse, aware that her beauty is dead. Lonely and anxious, she is taken in tow by a ravenous old contessa who supplies her with "beautiful" young men as escorts. Mrs. Stone, good American that she is, pays them as expected but politely declines their ultimate services. But when she meets Paolo, a gigolo with the face of an angel...
What should the Government do to help check the new inflation? The Federal Reserve Board was for raising interest rates to tighten credit. The other great fiscal arm of the Government, the Treasury, thought that this would be a treacherous stab in the back. As the nation's biggest borrower, it wanted cheap money and easy credit to keep down the cost of interest on the $257 billion national debt...