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...year. To dispose of this huge surplus, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture John H. Davis last week asked the Tariff Commission to recommend a 7?-a-lb. additional duty on imported wool. With this protection, Davis hoped that the CCC could avoid any new wool purchases this year, and perhaps rid itself of half its old holdings. Wool growers, who wanted something more like the 16? proposed last year, said they were "stunned" by Davis' request. Despite the present 25½? wool tariff, imports have been making steady headway in the U.S. wool market, accounting for 71% of domestic consumption...
...Bern, N.C., applying for a marriage license, Alec Ogburn gave his age-111-and that of his bride-to-be-22-and told the wide-eyed clerk: "Don't laugh at me, lady . . . If I don't get along with her, I reckon I can get rid...
Mossadegh was a master of the divide-and-conquer technique, uniting one day with a fanatic mullah to oust a rival Premier, allying himself with the Reds the next to break the mullah. He got rid of the ablest of the Shah's advisers like Court Minister Hussein Ala; he usurped the royal prerogative of dissolving the Majlis. The outlawed Communists, for supporting him, were left untouched and grew in strength...
...Inge and Director Mann were desperate. They had concluded that Shirley simply could not handle the role. They were chiefly upset by her stock-company approach to rehearsals: she merely walked through the part, mumbling her lines. Tearing their hair, Inge and Mann begged the Theatre Guild to get rid of Shirley and hire Joan Blondell in her place. Then, on the fourth day, Shirley was suddenly "off the book." She began playing with such intensity and finesse that Inge and Mann hastily changed their minds. In Westport, Sheba was a hit. Theater people poured up from Manhattan to shout...
...some parts of the U.S. there were signs that the worst was over. In Detroit and New York, business has picked up. One reason was that Detroit's car makers sent representatives around the country, urging dealers to get rid of their huge stocks at any cost. Those who took the advice often took heavy losses, but they cleared out old cars, freed tied-up cash, and put their dealerships on a sound basis. To dramatize the campaign, the Metropolitan Chevrolet Dealers of Detroit organized a "Funeral Parade" of jalopies, towed 35 old cars through the streets and burned...