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...restrict the spending spree, Rab Butler slapped restrictions on installment buying of autos, large appliances, etc., warned banks to clamp down on loans, appealed to private businessmen to postpone capital spending that would not boost exports...
...expense-account economy, country clubs are assuming a new importance to established businessmen and young executives. With the spectacular postwar rise of golf, more and more companies are taking out country-club memberships for their men, both as a means of giving them a tax-free pay boost and as a sound business maneuver. There are few better ways for businessmen to develop new contacts, keep customers happy, sell their products and themselves...
INTEREST RATES on short-term commercial loans are being tightened for the fifth time this year because of increasingly heavy credit demands. In New York, rates have been jacked up from 2% to 2⅛% on four-to six-month loans to corporations with top credit ratings. Total boost since...
...scattering of price increases showed up in the wake of the steel price increase two weeks ago, many a businessman feared that it was. Philco Corp. warned that high raw material and increased labor costs "are contributing to another round of higher production costs." Youngstown Kitchens announced a10¼% boost in factory prices. Dun & Bradstreet, which asked 1,104 businessmen what they intend to do about prices in the last quarter of this year, reported that 26% said they expected to raise them (in April, in answer to a similar question on third-quarter prospects, only 18% said they planned...
...Europe showed the largest gain, exports of $1,068,549,000 in the first quarter v. $687,818,000 last year. Latin American nations came next, buying $749,775,000, a gain of close to $40 million, and Canada, the biggest single U.S. customer, bought $692,685,000, a boost of more than $40 million. Sales to Asia, Australia and New Zealand reached $614,195,000, up almost $70 million, and African purchases increased about $41 million...