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...more than two years, the U.S. economy is entirely free of wage and price controls. As President Eisenhower last week struck off the last controls-on machine tools, steel, chemicals and other basic commodities freedom brought only a few price boosts. There was a $4-a-ton hike in sulphur and a 4?-a-lb. hike in coffee.* But, in general, businessmen showed no desire to gouge each other or the consumer for that matter. Actually, with production so high in most raw materials, there was little opportunity...
...Eisenhower Administration's sixth decontrol order left the U.S. economy free of wage and consumer controls for the first time since the post-Korea freeze of January 1951. The latest order freed coffee, beer, home-heating oil, soybeans, animal feeds-everything except some nonconsumer products vital to defense: sulphur and sulphur compounds, iron and steel, scarce alloy metals, metal cans, machine tools. A few predictable price rises followed, but they barely rippled overall price indexes, which have been steady since the Administration began its "orderly decontrol" six weeks...
GILES E. PADEL Port Sulphur...
...wife of the publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, Mrs. Mark (Willie Snow) Ethridge is a member of a rather small subdivision of womankind. Last week, at a meeting of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Mrs. Ethridge good-naturedly explained just what was so special about being a newspaper publisher's wife...
...Sulphur & Holy Water. While some of the guests went outside to see the newcomer's coach, which shone like a mirror and was drawn by a horse with flaming eyes, the stranger danced with Blanche, who trembled as he whispered: "How pretty you are!" Then they passed close to the Moreaus' two-year-old son, who shrieked, "Bru! Bru!" (Burn! Burn!). Seized with a dreadful presentiment, the mother dipped holy water and sprinkled the stranger. The Devil-for it was he-turned hideous, jumped to the ceiling, then ran right through the stone wall and vanished...