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...picture of Yuri in action. Every high-jumper who saw it leaped to a quick-conclusion: there was something sneaky about the Soviet jumper's sneakers. The sole of the take-off shoe looked uncommonly thick. Maybe it was bouncy enough to give Igor and Yuri an extra boost...
...which has a separate verbal contract with the mailers, was unaffected by the strike. After a 14-day interval in which it cautiously banned street sales within 30 miles of Boston, the Monitor last week resumed distribution in the city, but it did not have the press capacity to boost its normal newsstand quota...
FANCY DECANTERS, introduced by liquor companies to boost Christmastime sales, are on the way out. National Distillers, second-ranking U.S. liquor maker (Old Grand-Dad, Old Crow, etc.) will drop its holiday deluge of decanters this winter, figures sales increase is not worth the extra cost of molding, shipping, distributing the fanciful bottles...
...answer seems to be that Congress was too quick to 1) expand the system to cover more workers and 2) boost the benefits without waiting to get the bill for past increases. For example, in 1954 Congress voted to let self-employed farmers retire at 65 if they paid Social Security taxes for only two years. Thus, for $252 a farmer could buy a pension of $108.50 a month for life (if single) or $162.50 a month (if married). Thousands of agile farmers came out of retirement to farm for two years in order to become eligible for benefits, then...
Banker Land figures that the population boom will not boost general prosperity unless there is an "accompanying increase in real income and real productive capacity per person." And there is less chance for this now because "children and old people account for most of the expansion in our population. Consequently, the working force must run faster in order to stand still...