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Hats Outside. The group interests of Los Angeles' promoters often conflict with their private interests. Last year the Chamber campaigned for more highways, to be financed by a boost in the gasoline tax. Oilmen who are members of the Chamber not only opposed the idea, they spent thousands to fight it. Chamber President Clarence Beesemyer is an oilman himself (vice president of General Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc.). But he helped the Chamber fight the program through the state legislature...
...highly dangerous to mix politics with the complex problems of national finance. Any tax cut in the near future must be one not made with a view to its vote-getting consequences, and preferably one that would actively encourage savings. A bill that can be a boost to inflation smacks of a frightening irresponsibility in high places...
...start wags chasing models (see cut). But the new taffeta ruffled petticoats (some designed to show an inch below dresses), teddies trimmed with a six-inch embroidered net design, and haremlike ankle-length pantaloons for sleeping were serious business to the lingerie industry. Thanks to them, it hoped to boost its sales up from 1947's record high of about $430 million...
...plenty of wheat for its own needs: about 255 million bushels for processed foods, 23 million for seed, up to 177 million for livestock feed, and 150 million for the precautionary carry-over into the next crop year. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson hoped to cut livestock consumption enough to boost exports even higher-possibly to 500 million bushels...
Then why did K-F need more money? K-F said it wanted to spend $12,000,000 on new equipment and inventories to boost production of automobiles to 1,500 a day (present rate...