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Against this seasoned politicking, Manuel Roxas was staking his reputation as a young, determined public servant (he was the prewar Secretary of Finance). Last week he got a big boost when Mrs. Aurora Quezon, widow of the late President, gave him her support...
...Never Know Us. In another week or so Editor Ingersoll plans to unveil a PM drastically restyled typographically, with less foreign and more local news. Along with the shake-up will come an advertising campaign to boost circulation (now 145,000, the lowest of Manhattan's nine dailies). Theme: it's a new PM, not the newspaper you think it is. Says Ingersoll: "If you're always crusading, you get to be a bore...
...booming '20s, one of the financial shenanigans which helped boost stocks to their shaky 1929 highs was stock splits. For example, a corporation whose stock had been pushed up to $100 might split it by exchanging one share for ten, selling at $10 each. Thus, small-fry speculators were lured in, and the price could be run up again far beyond the stock's true value...
...Washington last week the farm bloc started playing patty cake with parity again. The Russell-Pace rider to the minimum wage-increase bill was purely & simply a scheme for inflating the parity price formula by the addition of farm wages. To the farmer it would mean a solid 33% boost. March's parity wheat prices, for example, would be upped from $1.58 to $2.10; the nation's overhead food bill would go up $4.5 billions...
...While the labor leaders, industrial giants, and various Federal agencies jockey for top spots in the new era of pushbutton prosperity, the small manufacturers cannot even get the material to make the push buttons. Their labor costs rise whenever the powerful unions effect a wage boost, the cost of their raw materials goes up whenever the large corporations break through a price ceiling, and the daily changes in Federal rules multiply their clerical work and overhead costs...