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...paper expansion due to increased prices or a normal increase necessitated by the increase in production, the delay in shipments. Some of it was probably caused by manufacturers stocking up in anticipation of higher prices. But what the Department of Commerce-and some businessmen-feared was that a sizable chunk was due to a decline in demand because of 1) high retail prices and 2) overproduction of certain items...
...spent a fair chunk of the $53 million raised by two public stock issues. Having survived infancy, it was ready to walk...
...League pennant since 1927, were sold last week for about $2,250,000. The buyer: a syndicate which included Crooner Bing Crosby. The sale put Crosby in the same game, but not the same league, with his old running mate, Comedian Bob Hope, who two months ago bought a chunk of the Cleveland Indians...
...last big chunk of the world's unchartered airways-the trans-Pacific routes to the Orient-was finally portioned out last week by the Civil Aeronautics Board. Promptly approved by President Truman, the board's decision will permit air travelers for the first time to go around the world on one ticket...
From the Rio Grande to Cape Horn, governments pondered ways & means of increasing both industrial and agricultural output. Most of Latin America's machines are imported. Argentina excepted, Latin America imports a healthy chunk of its food supply-chief items: wheat, corn and beef. One way out of the deficiency: increase the number of skilled workers by selective immigration...