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...Often? Last week L.I.U., characteristically scoring in spurts, breezed past a strong Bowling Green team, 69-63, for its ninth straight this season. Tall (6 ft. 7 in.), deadeyed Forward Sherman White poured in 24 points for the L.I.U. Blackbirds to boost his three-year point production to 1,053. Long-legged Sophomore Center Ray Felix (6 ft. 11 in.) tapped in ten more L.I.U. points before he fouled out. These two lanky Negroes are Bee's main scoring threats, but because opposing teams concentrate their defense against them, Bee's other sharpshooters also get plenty of scoring...
DiSalle drew up a plan to require all businessmen to notify him before making any new price boosts. If DiSalle did not turn down the boost in 30 days, then it could go through. DiSalle still had no way to get around the law banning controls on most food prices as long as they were below parity. He could slap ceilings on processors and retailers. But under the law, if processors and retailers had to pay more for farm products selling below parity, they would still be free to raise their prices. (Even Harry Truman, who said last week that...
...months Aramco's Davies and his lawyers argued with Abdullah, protesting that the decree violated their 1933 agreement. Unimpressed, Abdullah said that even rich nations like the U.S. find that they have to boost their taxes now & then. Furthermore, he said, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), one of Aramco's owners, had made a 50-50 split five years ago with Venezuela...
...supply of vital cobalt for the radio and television industry. From General Electric Co.'s new President Ralph J. Cordiner came a hint of how much war production would be stepped up in the future. Said he: G.E., whose production is already 22% in war goods, would boost the proportion to one-third or more...
...boost its steel production, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. last week announced a $90 million expansion of its East Chicago (Ind.) mill. With 75 new coke ovens and a new 1,400-ton blast furnace, the new plant will raise Youngstown's steel ingot capacity by 20%, its pig iron capacity by 15%. When the new ovens are finished, Youngstown will move from sixth place among the steelmakers into a tie with fifth-place National Steel Corp. (capacity of each: 5,200,000 tons...