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...general, the Journal frowns on sensationalism. Says President and Editor J. Donald Ferguson: "Circulation will balloon up just as well when it rains and people buy papers to put on their heads as when you dig up a good scandal, and the boost will last just about as long...
...helps morale in wartime. By imposing a heavy burden on business, the Government supposedly makes such burdens on the general public as rationing and price & wage controls easier to bear. To some extent, the tax also tends to cut down non-military production since there is no incentive to boost it as long as any additional profit is to be siphoned off. But the few arguments for the tax are far outweighed by those against...
...year old retired president and chairman of the board of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company will bring to the London post a broad background in economic and financial affairs. The new appointment is also expected to give a strong boost to the Administration's efforts to keep foreign policy bi-partisan, since Gifford is a Republican...
Bazooka Boom. Thus with no fanfare last week, the Ford Motor Co., which made airplane engines in World War II, took on the job of making Pratt & Whitney Wasp Majors for B-36s in Chicago's vast onetime Tucker plant. To boost GR-S synthetic rubber production up to a maximum of 760,000 tons a year, Goodyear and Goodrich rubber companies were asked by RFC to reopen the last two idle rubber plants. And where quick action has been needed, U.S. industry has jumped to the job. Example: to fill the U.S. Army's need...
...American Airways' Juan Terry Trippe put their heads together over Latin America's impending dollar shortages. One way to solve them, said Roosevelt, was to in crease tourist traffic from the U.S. by supplying better hotels for travelers. Since any increase in travelers would mean a boost for Pan Am as well, Juan Trippe got right to work...