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After the Christmas spending spree, we're confronted with income taxes, auto licenses, real estate taxes-all at a time when fuel bills are large. What better cause for a slump? Spreading these out would leave us less vulnerable...
...sales of soft goods, they were still so strong that the U.S. Commerce Department reported January sales ahead of a year ago. All told, said Commerce, U.S. retailers did $15.5 billion worth of business last month to start off 1958 with the greatest selling spree in history and a new record 5.4% better than last year's peak...
...present price headaches are caused mainly by a hangover from a four-year spree. As demand began to soar in 1954 in the worldwide boom, Chilean, African and U.S. producers boosted production and opened new mines. Copper supplies were still so short in 1956 (after a 43-day U.S. strike in 1955) that free market prices in London were bid up to 54.6?. "Now," says Kennecott's Cox, "automotive production is down and so are housing starts. Utilities have slowed their expansion programs. Those are our three biggest customers. And there was that price; when it climbed past...
...play tells of two sugar-cane field workers (Kenneth Warren and Playwright Lawler), the one a Samson at his job, the other a Don Juan with the women. For 16 summers, during the long layoff period, they have come to Melbourne for a home-style spree with two barmaids. Each year one of them has given his girl a Kewpie doll, by now a symbol of gaily recurrent romance and absentee devotion. This 17th summer, with the other girl married and a new one (Madge Ryan) in her place, with relations between the two men rather strained, and with various...
...tallest yet made. Among the other newcomers in Plastic: the 26-ft. Luders-16, day sailer and racer; the 15-ft. Feather Craft runabout; and the 14-ft. Owens Speedship runabout. The new construction not only permitted builders to cut costs,*but also set them off on a color spree of red, yellow and blue...