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...poll of 28,200 top executives found some 60% expecting the boom to continue at the present level or even higher in 1948. Only 37% expect a moderate downturn (last May 74% expected a slump by year's end). Some 90% expect to keep their present payrolls or boost them. Almost none expects to lower prices in the next six months...
Conditions: The Paris conferees had already agreed to take steps toward closer cooperation and greater self-help (TIME, Oct. 6). Now each participant would also be bound by bilateral treaties with the U.S. to boost production, stabilize finances, cut trade barriers, provide the U.S. with regular progress reports...
...police were partly to blame. When they clubbed students (and were themselves clubbed) in breaking up an anti-bases demonstration last fortnight, they unwittingly gave the agitators a big boost. Thereafter, calm discussion of the bases deal was impossible. Politicos, their eyes on next May's presidential election, began to play it safe. Last week, after 10,000 people paraded outside the National Assembly, a special committee brought out reservations designed to sidetrack the agreement...
...Soap Flakes), faced the new year with at least one worry off her mind. A Chicago court saw her point when she pointed out that money isn't what it used to be and it costs more now to make ends meet. She thus won a boost in her annual trust allowance-from a grinding $30,866 to a humane...
...present, Clipson is trying to get into large-scale production while fighting off eager customers. Britons hope that his super-plaster, which permits builders to cut all sorts of corners, will boost the government's lagging housing program. In due course, non-Britons may stand in line for exports or patent licenses...