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...huddle together when they first put down roots. There are well over 600,000 Puerto Ricans in New York City (there were fewer than 100,000 in 1945), but there is not really a section that is to Puerto Ricans what Harlem is to Negroes. Almost every sector of the city has a bodega (grocery) or two, and perhaps a Spanish-language movie house...
...question at issue revolved around the best practicable methods of reducing farm surpluses, improving agricultural marketing practices, and restoring the farm sector of the economy to relative parity with the rest of the nation. No decision on the winning team was rendered by the two judges, H. Bradford Westerfield, instructor in Government, and Hiram J. McLendon, assistant professor of Philosophy...
...German cables and a third used by the Russians. What was at the American end? The newsmen were not permitted to know. As they crawled westward, a sandbag barrier barred the way, its purpose emphasized by a sign reading in English and German: "You are now entering the American sector...
...from urban insularity, is generally seen as either a dull academic question or a potential trouble-maker in the November elections. Hucksters of both parties have made the "farm problem," a matter of narrow interest, using a flood of paper panaceas to obscure the real existence of a weak sector of the economy. Careless subsidy plans, log-rolling, and philosophical battle cries have replaced intelligent efforts to solve one of the nation's most important domestic problems...
...course," said Barnes, "various problems plague the small business sector of the economy." Foremost is the squeeze on some raw materials, e.g., steel, aluminum, copper, newsprint. The small businessman also has a tough time bringing in new equity capital and finding long-term loans at cheap rates. But he thrives anyway: business failures dropped to 10,969 last year v. 11,086 in 1954. The business population rose to 4,225,000 firms of all sizes at mid-1955, a net increase of more than 28,000 companies in a year...