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...long it would stay closed was something else again. On an inspection tour of his Chester, Pa. assembly plant, Automaker Henry Ford II reluctantly agreed that "the new pay boost is probably inevitable. I don't think anything can prevent...
Shopping was the prime lure. Import duties and local mark-up boost Cuban retail prices from 30% to 50% over U.S. levels. Many a canny Habanero found that he and his wife could buy a year's wardrobe in Miami and save enough to pay the airplane fare ($34.50 round trip) and vacation expenses. Havana merchants groused, but succeeded only in getting Miami stores to leave the prices out of their advertisements in Cuban newspapers...
...strength of local Democratic tickets, which gave Harry Truman a boost in almost every key state...
...Republican-controlled 80th had passed the law which made his election possible). Washington thought that U.S. legislators might balk at authorizing Puerto Rico to write its own constitution, as Muñoz has recommended. But there was a good chance that Congress would give Puerto Rico a healthy economic boost by extending the Social Security Act to the overpopulated island. That would fit right into Muñoz' plans for a more prosperous Puerto Rico...
...market's companies, all privately owned, keep their net earnings secret, but last year, with a boost in sales because of high meat prices, they had an estimated gross of more than $85 million, up 20% over prewar. Last month, when meat prices began falling, fish sales held up and in some cases even increased. Fishmen decided that "people had to eat so much of our stuff during the war that they finally got fond of it. It's the only food that hasn't been fouled up by being vitaminized, tenderized or homogenized." This year...