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...small manufacturer, caught be tween OPA and skyrocketing costs, can legally do one of two things, provided his gross margin fits OPA definitions. He can : 1) drop his low-priced lines and concentrate on the higher ones; or 2) if he has no higher ones, he can go out of business on his old lines, open up as a new company the next day. So can any shoestring retail er. The department or specialty store with many price lines is also unaffected : it can just drop the unprofitable low ones...
Election to Congress in 1930, two years before the New-Deal landslide, gave Kentucky's bald, bumbling Andrew Jackson May an important margin of seniority...
...Last November Andy May squeaked back into Congress by the narrow margin of 550 votes. Last week the Knoxville News-Sentinel reported that Andy May had told close friends he would not run for Congress again...
...Gallup polls last week showed that if the 1944 election were held now, Franklin Roosevelt would win hands down and then some. In the straw balloting he led Wendell Willkie 59-to-41, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey, 55-to-45 (the same margin he had over Wendell Willkie in 1940). Most startling change in the President's vote-getting power: increased war popularity among upper-income groups...
Dunster won all its games this week by a big score margin. In the softball game Wednesday with the Kirkland V-12ers the Funsters rang up a score of 14 to 2. Then yesterday afternoon in softball Dunster hung a 14 to 0 defeat on the lagging Bellboys. Dudley was completely swamped by Dunster yesterday afternoon in a touch football game with a score...