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...spite of the signature "Harry S. Truman" which made law of the new price control measures yesterday, inflation's holiday still has official permission for a one-month extension. How much cain it can raise with the national pocket-book until August 20 continues to depend upon the cash restraint that buyers can show towards still scarce foods, clothing--even automobiles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dollar-Slicing Is Still Legal | 7/26/1946 | See Source »

...findings indicate that most shopkeepers depend for their livelihood on their good standing with their customers and that they cannot force down wholesale and producer prices without support from customers in the form of an obvious intention not to pay higher prices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prices in Square Edging Up, Investigation Reveals, as Buyers' Strike Gains Momentum | 7/16/1946 | See Source »

Wherever the future looked most troubled and unpredictable, President Roxas painted it over with a protective coloring of red, white and blue. For the future of the Philippine Republic would unequivocally depend on the U.S., which had given the Filipinos freedom, and could be counted on to see that no one took it away from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Destiny's Child | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...long run, the success of the British export program will depend on how much of its present market Britain will lose to increasing competition later. The British hope that they can sell everything they can export for at least two years. This may be overoptimistic. Furthermore, the easy market now may make it harder to compete later. British manufacturers, who have always resisted innovation, may get so complacent that they will postpone modernization until it is too late. Those who do try to increase their efficiency may find that the machinery they need has been exported. When the time comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Goal in Sight? | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...chain of such stores has been the dream of United's energetic, athletic president, Justin Whitlock Dart, 38, ever since he was started in the drug business by Charles R. Walgreen Sr., then his father-in-law. He soon proved that his job did not depend on nepotism. Over the objections of fellow executives, he busily rearranged the interiors of Walgreen drugstores, showed that it was just as important to put an article in the right place in a store as to put the right things in the manufacture of the article. Sample change: he separated soda fountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Dart on the Target | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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