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...Loeser & Co., Inc., second largest department store in Brooklyn, was long known as the favorite of the carriage trade. But in recent years Loeser's (rhymes with closures) lost much of its prestige and many of its customers. Last year, when retail trade slumped, Loeser's was hard-hit; on sales of $25 million it lost $600,000. This year looked no better; in January Loeser's lost nearly $100,000. Last week the 91-year-old store announced that it will close down, except for one small branch. The 1,400 employees will not be left...
Some dock operators fought hard against the settlement, finally gave in at the insistence of the hard-hit Matson Navigation Co. (with 18 freighters and the luxury liner Lurline immobilized) and sugar planters (plagued by $61 million worth of raw sugar piled up in the islands). The strike had cost the islands an estimated $100 million loss in business and wages. Even with the settlement accepted by both sides, Hawaiians had to wait a while before normal shipping was resumed: the union insisted on clearing up some fringe issues before letting its stevedores go back to work...
Africa was really hard-hit, suffering the worst drought in a century. In many parts of South Africa, once high corn and grazing land looked, after the 14-month drought, like scorched earth. At Mombasa, the game warden for the Kenya coast reported some 5,000 elephants stampeding toward the coast in search of water...
...addition, the Council is expected to consider possible steps toward helping students hard-hit by the-coming increase in tuition...
Long denied many simple necessities, and particularly hard-hit in foodstuffs and clothing, the British masses not only know of the plenty that exists in America, but, more important, are in the psychologically unsound position of being at the receiving end of countless gifts, ranging from individual parcels to the US Loan. Not to be overlooked either as catalysts in forming this conscious or unconscious attitude are the American views toward Palestine and the sight of new Buicks and Packards in Grosvenor Square...