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...same time, metal supplies of consumer-goods industries will be cut back to 50% of their pre-Korea level. By midsummer, thinks Defense Mobilizer Charles Wilson, all that money jingling in U.S. jeans and a reduced supply of consumer goods' will create a $10 to $20 billion "inflationary gap...
...young scholars compiled examples of "folk medicine" ("Warts can be cured by rubbing a black slug on them") and weather lore ("If the wind gets in Gravely Gap, it will rain"), told how the farmers call in their cows ("Coof, coof, nare, nare, nare"). They interviewed all the most prominent people in town-from Lieut. Colonel O.N.D. Sismey, the village squire, to Mr. P. Stocker, the butcher ("His scales are very accurate, as they should be"). Reported one scholar of Mr. J. Dudley, the roadman: "If Mr. Dudley is not sweeping leaves, he is sometimes cleaning drains. When I asked...
...point at which Legion of Decency excisions left a significant gap is in the next-to-last scene, in which Kowalski's line "You might not be too bad to interfere with," was vetoed for some indiscernible reason. Since this line was intended to suggest the first awakening of dishonorable intentions toward Blanche, Stanley's subsequent apelike pursuit now comes as a surprise. Legion attacks on the obvious "carnal" element in Stanley's relationship to his wife were not too successful; short of cutting her out of the picture, they could not wipe that smirk off her face...
Beaver Boy. The new plant will help Baker to close the gap in his 26-year race to overtake Sewell Avery's giant U.S. Gypsum Co. In that race, Baker has already turned in a spring-legged performance. He quit Tennessee's small Carson-Newman Baptist college after two years, later started selling once-famed "Beaverboard" in the South for the old Beaver Co., rose to sales manager...
...thesis was not new; many businessmen have been preaching it for years. Its virtue lay in its primerlike clarity-and some startling figures. From 1914 through 1950, he said, U.S. exports amounted to $300,700,000,000 while imports amounted to $191 billion. More than $30 billion of the gap of $109,700,000,000 represented exports paid for by dollars that foreigners had acquired through private U.S. remittances and investments and through U.S. purchases of gold. But some $78 billion of the gap, Reed calculated, was accounted for by U.S. taxpayers' dollars handed out to foreigners either...