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With only three games left on the schedule, the Yardlings now sport a record of seven victories, five defeats, and one tie. This record should make the squad a slight favorite to trim the inexperienced Leicester nine...
With competition in the U.S. television industry growing hotter by the day, manufacturers were cudgeling their brains for new ways to trim costs and prices. In Chicago, Admiral Corp.'s quick-stepping President Ross Siragusa thought he knew a good way to do it. On the big, fancy-looking console jobs, about one-third of the cost went into furniture. Why not start cutting there...
Slowdown by Noon. "On broad, dusty Chungshan Lu, Nanking's main street, a pretty Chinese girl, trim in a white sweater, cycled by, said good-morning in perfect English, and serenely rode...
...Abbot, a trim, slim, energetic 76, and ready to take on all doubters, this was conclusive proof of his theories. Instead of locking his 1949 predictions in the safe, he has published them. (He says that the Fourth of July will be relatively cool in Washington; Christmas Day will be warmish.) But the Weather Bureau professionals think they see loopholes in Abbot's defenses. To prove their point, they have turned his theory upside down. Taking his 55 dates in 1948, they have found that besides the warmer days in between, there were also cooler intervening days...
Banking. Recession-wary businessmen, who are doing their best to trim inventories, have also cut back their borrowings. For the twelfth week in a row, business loans from banks declined, the Federal Reserve Board reported. The latest drop, $277 million, was the biggest weekly decline in history. But total outstanding loans of $14.6 billion were still $197 million higher than last year at this time...