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...Boulder City, nine miles west of the dam, was glum. Merchants, contemplating a quarter of a million dollars' worth of ash trays, sofa pillows and other knicknacks emblazoned "Souvenir of Boulder Dam," tried to decide what to do. They could get rid of them at a loss. But what if the next Congress were Democratic...
...greatly improve merchandise quality at present price levels. Food and raw material prices need to be eased down, mark-ups on goods reduced, and smaller profits accepted all along the line. Merchandise quality must once mere reflect competition and not indifference. And labor, having gained its wage demands, must rid itself of the 1930's philosophy of stretching out the work. Newburyport has been great fun for the storekeeper, but the real job begins with the producer. If he delays further, a price crash, recession, and unemployment will follow the Forth of July skyrockets into the national view...
...Write-in Vote. A better test of Japanese democracy will come later this month, in national elections for the two houses of parliament. On the broader national scene, Prime Minister Yoshida's Liberal incumbents had used the purge powers given them by General MacArthur to get rid of the leaders of the Democratic Party, their principal opposition...
Like an efficient hostess, Colombia is preparing well ahead of time for the ninth Pan American Conference, scheduled tentatively for December. A primary move has been to rid Bogotá's streets of beggars, which last week were strangely free of the lame and the halt-result of a preconference roundup...
...speaking literally. Before the Blue left home (NBC) in 1942, it had nothing to wear but castoffs-speeches, discussions, classical music-from its flashy big sister, NBC's Red Network. When NBC got rid of the Blue (by request of the Federal Communications Commission), Woods became its first president. His first job: to auction off "the dullest, speechingest network you ever heard," a 116-station property that brought in a slim $14 million in 1942. It took Mark a year and a half to find a buyer...