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After five and a half months in Europe, W. Averell Harriman, U.S. ambassador-at-large to the Marshall Plan nations, came home last week on a visit. Before reporting to President Truman, who was still in Key West, Harriman addressed the American Federation of Labor convention in Cincinnati...
...Organization to Encourage People to quit Organizations was founded by the Rev. Howard W. Stone of the First Presbyterian Church in Franklin, Ind., in the hope that it would give people more time to go to church. The organization's motto: "Be a Quitter"; its password...
...save himself time & trouble, Houston Oilman W. W. West took to parking his car in the bus zone in front of his office, forced bus passengers to alight in the street, cheerfully paid a daily $5 parking fine. Total to date...
From its Washington sampling, the committee estimated that U.S. car buyers had been "mulcted" at an annual rate of $450 million in the first seven months of the year in low trade-ins, tips and doodad accessories. There was nothing illegal about the deals. But Committee Chairman W. Kingsland Macy trumpeted that the auto industry "must police its own backyard" or face mandatory price controls. To police the backyard, Ford had already fired 23 dealers for grey marketeering. Most carmakers, while holding their own prices far under true market values, had actively campaigned against it. This week General Motors notified...
Goldsmith's customers eagerly defended him in court; one testified that he had made $150,000 on Goldsmith tips. A customers' man from E. W. Clucas & Co., a brokerage house, said that Goldsmith's market letter was the "best of them all." Would he have thought so if he had known the tips came from the comics, he was asked? The customers' man brushed that off as other witnesses had. It was not important. Said he: "I'm only interested in making a profit...