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...shares in the Government-owned Volkswagen works, whose sales abroad have made a mighty contribution to West Germany's foreign exchange hoard. The new aid, announced Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, would be offered to underdeveloped countries at low interest and over a long term; unlike past German pinch-pfennig credits, it will not be "tied," i.e., need not be spent exclusively for German exports...
...coincidence, this was the year of the great October crash of the stock market, in which millions of dollars literally vanished in a day. Among the millions were some $30,000 that Mrs. Feldman had risked from her profits as a milliner. "It took a while for the pinch to really hurt," says Sylvia, "but when the roof fell in, I was appalled-and fascinated. How could something like that happen? How could so much money just disappear? I was damned curious." Sylvia decided to find out for herself...
...skillful, and how well George Roy Hill has directed and Barbara Baxley, James Daly and Robert Webber have acted it, a good deal seems somehow unsatisfying. There is, in the end, too much sense of mere surface, of flare-ups with more theater in them than truth, of Freud pinch-hitting for flesh and blood, of amusing little leitmotivs in place of incisive motivations. There is not much organic development, and at times scenes dribble on or go flat. Again, there is even here too much sex, or needless talk about it, at times on the commercial rather than compulsive...
Eastern and American are not the only airlines feeling the pinch. Capital, National and Northeast have also been operating in the red. All told, in the first eight months, the combined profits of the nation's major airlines were only $930,000, a startling drop from earnings of $46,539,000 for the same period in 1959. The decline had a variety of causes. Although revenues for the airlines were up 9% this year, the cost of depreciating the expensive new jets shot up 27.8% and ate up profits. Operating expenses were up 16%, largely because of the increased...
...Brooklyn has felt the pinch of the latest downturn in our cyclical economy, you'd never realize it by conversing with people who are voting for Nixon. In response to a question about local economic conditions, only 17.5 per cent of the Nixon voters felt that "things aren't going so well," Significantly, however, 43.3 per cent of the Kennedy voters had the same opinion...