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...MEAT PACKERS are pushing for permission to branch into retail meat, grocery business. Swift, Armour and Cudahy have petitioned Federal District Court in Washington, D.C. to revoke consent decree of 1920 prohibiting them from owning retail meat markets and restricting their dealing in 140 products, e.g., fruits, vegetables, fresh milk...
...final drastic step, Macmillan had asked the U.S. and Canada to forgo this year's interest on their postwar loans to Britain ($81.6 million to the U.S., $22.2 million to Canada), and had been informed by the U.S. Treasury that Congress would almost certainly consent. In Britain's current anti-American mood this was a humiliating and unpopular move, but it was one that would keep a precious $104 million available for the defense of the pound...
...MACHINES are going on sale, most of them for first time, as result of consent decree signed with Justice Department last January (TIME, Feb. 6). After decades of rental-only policy, IBM will sell accounting and tabulating machines, either old or new, that are installed up to July 25, 1958; from then on, only new machines will be sold. Sample prices: $1,950 for a card punch v. $40 monthly rental; $1,700,000 for 700 series electronic brain v. $30,000 monthly rental...
...anything foolish, she somehow conveys a less satisfactory impression. She is said to have a good voice, but I find it, and the seriousness with which she takes it, irritating. Her part, of course, will not permit the clownishness of the others, but still one wishes that she would consent to do mere Gilbert and Sullivan. (With a heynonny. .) Another element of undue sobriety can be found in the piano-playing, which because of its conscientious competence makes the overture seem interminable. The blocking is also occasionally stiff, but, in the case of the chorus, amusing enough. The production...
...freshmen and a faculty of 13. Its plant consisted of a Normanesque" castle" (which Architect Eero Saarinen once described as "Mexican Ivanhoe") and a few other buildings that had belonged to the defunct Middlesex University Medical School. At first the founders hoped that Albert Einstein would consent to take over the presidency. But when Einstein declined, they hit upon the happy choice of Historian Abram Sachar, chairman of the National Hillel Commission...