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...weeks ago Fred Willkie was fired. Last week, at the annual stockholders' meeting of the company, the showdown between Sinclair and Willkie factions came. The Willkie men tried to put in their own slate of directors and were soundly licked...
...unsheathed a rapier aimed at the heart of inflation: the enormous supply of money and credit. FRB tightened up its installment curbs, then boldly touched off the financial fight of the year; it challenged the cheap-money policy of the Fair Deal and Treasury Secretary John Snyder. In the showdown, it forced Snyder to retreat from his cheap-money policy and let the interest rates on Government bonds-which affect all other interest rates-start slowly upwards, thus tightening the money and credit supply and choking off spending.While spending dropped, manufacturers poured out goods as fast as ever...
...appeared to be rounding into top form as he whipped Lefthander Mervyn Rose, Australia's No. 3, in a five-set quarterfinal. Savitt looked even stronger as he blasted McGregor, the Aussies' No. 2, in a straight-set semifinal. That set the Stage for a long-waited showdown with Aussie No. 1, Frank Sedgman...
Actually, the showdown is at hand. In the corn belt's feed lots is a record number of cattle that must come to market sooner or later. If they move soon, prices will drop, beef will be plentiful, and Mike Di Salle will win his battle for continued controls. But if this does not happen, and the beef-control program is working as badly and as unfairly by midwinter as it is now, then even impartial observers think that meat controls must be abandoned...
...Showdown. Green's Lawyer Fred A. Ossanna and other associates became so alarmed at the publicity that they quarreled with Green. By last December he was so leary of his old associates that he showed up for a stockholders' meeting with a loaded revolver...