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FAST-SELLING RAMBLER, which sped from twelfth to seventh place in car production during first quarter, will boost output 10% to 660 cars...
HELP FOR RAILS is expected from higher mail rates. Eastern lines demand 70% boost, which would stoke up revenues by $82 million a year, plus retroactive payments of $145 million. Post office has offered 15% raise that would bring rails about $17.5 million yearly. ICC will hand down decision this summer...
...French Premier Si Moktar Ould Daddah promptly branded them "traitors," begged France not to judge his country by the doings of a few "wild men." Nevertheless, as both Rabat and Paris realized, the four defecting delegates had given Mohammed's Greater Morocco campaign its biggest propaganda boost yet. Morocco, which gained its independence two years ago without ever having its southern borders officially defined, claims a sizable part of the western Sahara, the remaining North African possessions of Spain, and all of the land and unexploited resources of Mauritania...
VETERANS' HOUSING will get boost as a result of presidential order supplementing housing bill. G.I.s will no longer have to make 2% down payment on VA mortgages, will have to pay only closing costs in cash. Other orders released $325 million from Fanny Mae funds to stimulate home building, reduced cash down payment for middle-priced FHA houses...
...thousands of U.S. car buyers, the secret best kept by dealers is the list price suggested by Detroit. The reason is "price packing," the skilled and corrupt art by which some dealers boost the cost of accessories-from map lights to automatic transmissions-until the car's price is several hundred dollars over list. The dealer then generously offers a hefty "discount," or an inflated trade-in price, giving the customer the illusion that the deal is fantastically good. Last week in Washington, the Justice Department opened an investigation of price packing aimed at indictments under the Sherman Antitrust...