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...have reduced out-of-state circulation or cut the number of copies distributed to newsstands, where unsold papers now seem a vanishing luxury. Other economies are being sought. The Martinsburg (W. Va.) Journal has compressed its editorial and comic sections down to half a page; the Hillsboro (Ore.) Argus has trimmed its obituary columns by leaving out the names of pallbearers. Seeking a brighter alternative, the Charleston (W. Va.) Sunday Gazette-Mail dipped into a reserve stock of tinted newsprint and ran off an edition splashed with pink, green and yellow...
Amin has also announced that all "foreign-owned businesses," including 28 British-owned tea plantations, will be placed in the hands of black Ugandans. Last week he took over the country's only English-language daily, the Uganda Argus, partly because a majority of the shares were owned by Britons and Kenyans but also because its editors had had the temerity to print a story about a sugar shortage. The paper is now the Voice of Uganda...
...News, The B.U. Free Press, The Boston College Heights, The Berkeley Beacon, The Simmons Janus, The Tufts Observer, The Michigan Daily, The Stanford Daily, The Daily Californian, The Wisconsin Daily Cardinal, The Williams Record Advocate Newton 885, The University of California at Davis Aggic, and The Wesleyan Argus...
...devaluation; the Dow Jones industrial average has risen sharply since Thanksgiving. Wall Streeters were registering their relief that the international money crisis appeared to be on the way to solution. The market stands to get a more direct boost from devaluation in 1972. William Wolman, vice president of Argus Research in New York, forecasts a record increase of almost $3 billion in foreign purchases of U.S. securities next year. After devaluation, foreign investors' money will buy not only more 747 jets and American coal, but also more U.S. stock...
...found firm answers as readily as Patrick Trainer. The long-range economic effects of the President's program, like the political ones, were still largely incalculable. The great majority of business leaders applauded the plan, convinced that it would create general economic momentum and thus benefit everyone. The Argus Weekly Staff Report, an investment newsletter with a good forecasting record, predicted that general business activity would "accelerate sharply" over the next year. Still, few businessmen had a chance to assess completely the program's impact on their own operations. An executive of Lockheed spoke bluntly for many other firms. Just...