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Some retail prices edged upward in December, among them used cars, fuel oil, fresh vegetables and beef, but the ups were more than balanced by the downs-new cars, gasoline, fresh fruits, pork, eggs, movie admissions, women's clothing. Net result, as reported last week by the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics: after creeping up to the alltime peak last November, consumer prices slipped downward a little in December to pare the BLS consumer price index two-tenths of a point, to 123.7 (the 1947-49 average: 100). Price forecast for 1959, as most economists see it: renewed upcreep...
...Barracks, would like to have a chat. Castro celebrated by coming down to the family farm at Mayari, his first visit in four years. "Oh, what a party we had that night!" says his mother. "His soldiers were all over the place, and he bought $1,000 worth of beef to feed the people from all around...
...return to the days of yesteryear, when a man was judged by his mind and not his Earned Run Average. Let them eat chipped beef...
...Beef It Up. This kind of trouble is unavoidable with any killed-virus preparation, but was intensified in the case of polio vaccine early in the 1955 vaccination season when about 200 cases of polio were blamed on infective vaccine. The U.S. Public Health Service and the manufacturers understandably redoubled their efforts to make the vaccine safe. They succeeded-there has been no such disaster since-but at the cost of an equally desirable increase in the vaccine's potency...
...years, Cyrus Eaton is the archetype of the fading dog-eat-dog capitalist. Tall and slim (5 ft. 11 in., 175 Ibs.) with frosty blue eyes and arctic white hair, he dresses like Daddy Warbucks (blue suits, grey Homburg) and resides in manorial splendor on huge farms (champion Shorthorn beef cattle) in Ohio and Nova Scotia. His personal wealth is estimated at something like $100 million, and his hard-knuckled grip on U.S. industry extends over a $2 billion empire of iron and steel, railroads, shipping, coal and paint. Cy Eaton picked up his empire by lone-wolf feats...