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...particularly heartening to see that free enterprise is getting a healthy boost from such places as West Germany, through their able Ludwig Erhard and through the International Industrial Development Conference...
West Germany's durable Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, remarkably unaware that he could slow down at 81, said he will fly down to Rio for a visit next year, at Brazil's invitation, to boost economic and cultural ties...
...payments start pouring in. From October through February, Treasury income is at its lowest point, while expenditures continue at their high level. In fiscal 1957, for example, the U.S. Government collected $24.4 billion from October through February, but spent $29.2 billion. Realizing its predicament, the Treasury got Congress to boost the debt limit temporarily to $278 billion until income picked up again. Early this year the Treasury thought it could get by, asked for no increase. But since then, estimated expenditures have gone up, while income may well decrease as a result of the business decline...
...passing was the main factor in the upset of Princeton, but Yale's use of a man in motion, along with a trailer back, baffled the Tigers and gave the Bulldogs an added boost. Yale alternated between the slot-T and the straight-T formations for the first time Saturday, following the pattern the Crimson had employed against the Tigers with some success...
...such a drop, persisted Kefauver, "would give the economy a shot in the arm." Then Kefauver lashed out at the steel price hike made last July to balance the 21? hourly boost for steelworkers. Prices went up by an average of $6 a ton, Kefauver noted, but manufacturers admitted that the wage increase cost them only $3.15 a ton. Furthermore, some other manufacturing costs are down. Charged Kefauver: "Steelmen cannot justify the continued existence of a price increase in view of the fact that the price of scrap used in a ton of steel is down around...