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There are further things wrong with the House measure. ECA's open market buying finds far better bargains than the parity prices payed for surplus crops; if further buying is curtailed, the government would probably have to boost its surplus purchases an equal amount to keep up farm prices. And there is a myopic self-interest behind the bill. For to many Congressmen's annoyance, ECA, perhaps more than any other government agency, has managed to remain free of political free-loading. The bill would finally permit the farmer's representative a chance to steer his constituents a little government...
...City hired Howell at $100 a day to boost its depleted water supply. Howell arrived yesterday in New York and inspected police aviation equipment with Mayor William O'Dwyer...
...takes to sell a pair of shoes," said Talbott. He also checked displays at 70 Joyce retailers, found that white light on a display "is too hard" and helps few sales, purple light even fewer ("it's old-timy"). But yellow and red lights ("warm, emotional colors") boost sales of summer shoes because they excite the "impulse buying" of women...
With $13,355,000 in ECA funds, British oil companies and associates are building four refineries to boost their output by 33 million barrels of oil a year. They want another $30 million to add 46.5 million more barrels. That request, said Bransky, had been put on ice indefinitely. But "we are still hopeful," he added, "that a satisfactory outcome will be obtained...
...oilmen, estimating that the restrictions on dollar oil have cost them roughly $6,000,000, have already rejected as discriminatory one British compromise proposal-to permit U.S. companies to boost their sales in proportion to any additional dollars they spend in sterling area countries. And they still believe that Britain is less interested in saving dollars than in using its ECA-created oil surplus to drive the U.S. out of existing markets. Nevertheless the State Department is still trying to work out some formula that will meet the British need for saving dollars and still permit the U.S. to compete...