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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Bigger Target. To make up for the drain of the cold war, and provide for growing numbers of retired workers, C.E.D. thought that the U.S. would have to step up production in the future. The Government could make some major contributions to higher productivity, mainly through tax reforms, such as a quicker write-off of new machinery, and adjustment of taxes which now discourage investors...
Management, said C.E.D., must also make the lives of its workers "more meaningful and satisfying" by making clear the importance of an individual's contribution to the total output, and by drawing on his ideas for improving output. Unions should relax their seniority rules, which have hampered "management's right to recognize ability and efficiency in making promotions." and swap their featherbedding requirements, where they exist, for higher wages...
...world rubber market, there had not been such a chance in years to make a fast buck-nor so many speculators trying to make it. Natural rubber began getting scarce last winter just as booming auto production stepped up the demand for tires. Synthetic rubber production slumped as the coal strike cut the supply of styrene, a vital coal-tar derivative...
...bourse on Alexandria's Mohammed Aly Square exploded with the news that the two pashas owned or controlled every bale of Ashmouni cotton in Egypt. Ashmouni rocketed to $80.36 a hundredweight, nearly double its price five months ago. When frantic speculators who had sold Ashmouni short tried to make delivery with other grades of cotton, the pashas appealed to the Egyptian cabinet. On their plea that "foreigners" were trying to cheat them, the cabinet passed a retroactive law banning delivery of substitute grades...
Douglas, Keenan Wynn, Joan Davis and Arthur Treacher work to make the film's burlesque of gangster customs fitfully amusing, though it is never good enough to offset a phony love story that insists on taking itself seriously. As the truculent brat who poses as the bigshot's son (and who is intended to be lovable), Peter Price is the last, unspeakable word in precocious delinquency. Students of U.S. movie morality, noting that the t gangster's innocence of any actual killing qualifies him for a hero's fadeout, may be forced to conclude that racketeering...