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Straining Men's Energies. From the start British Columbia has strained men's energies. The first Briton to land there, Captain James Cook, put in at Nootka Sound in 1778 to gaze at the stands of tall timber, the schools of ocean salmon and herds of sea otter. Within a few years British merchantmen plied regular routes from the British Columbia coasts with cargoes of furs for China, Britain and the U.S. Pelts were only the beginning. The cry "gold" brought a clamoring horde of adventurers sweeping north from the U.S. to mining camps along the Fraser...
...hands (Broderick Crawford) decides that the world has too many people and he has too little money. He knows exactly how to solve both problems at once: murder everybody on board, then claim the ship as salvage. With the help of a misanthropic messmate, he actually makes a good start on this project but meets his match in a courageous captain (James Mason) and a ravishing Maori girl (Dorothy Dandridge). Not that it matters, but the title is misleading. Since the picture is not in color, the decks only run black and white...
...public has become obsessed with the fear of inflation." Thus last week spoke Dr. William C. Freund, economist for the Prudential Insurance Co. of America, in taking an unfrightened look at the bogeyman that haunts the U.S. economic revival. The worry that inflation is ready to start shooting prices up again is nowhere more evident than in the stock market, which last week reached a new high (see State of Business). But is the new inflation psychology justified by the economic facts? Answers Dr. Freund: "The stock market reflects a too acute awareness of the long-term aspects of inflation...
...better business and profits, virtually every economic indicator that usually signals inflation is failing to do so now. Chief among these is inventory liquidation, which has continued despite the recovery. If businessmen thought they would have to pay more for raw materials six months from now, they would start building up inventories instead of continuing to cut them...
...merger joins two of the nation's oldest store chains. Hecht was founded as a furniture store in east Baltimore in 1857 by Immigrant Peddler Samuel Hecht, four of whose five sons later entered the business (present Chairman Hecht is a grandson). May Co. got its start in 1878 in Leadville. Colo., a mining boom town where David May, a 26-year-old German immigrant, founded a clothing store. David May spread his stores through the Midwest, and his son Morton J. May, Buster May's father and the chairman of May Co., expanded the chain coast...