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Trujillo is essentially a brutally efficient businessman. Name of the business: the Dominican Republic. His basic maneuver is to squeeze other investors, including those from the U.S., out of profitable businesses. He sends his representatives to make what is often a scrupulously fair offer; the victims accept rather than face...
As farm experts saw it, the referendum sadly underscored the fact that farmers, long hit by drought and the cost-price squeeze, have become too enmeshed in the U.S. subsidy program ever to vote their own way into the uncertainties of a free market. The 1958 quotas will do little...
Summer Squeeze
The squeeze on money, which many experts had hoped would start easing soon, got tighter last week. The Treasury's interest rate on 90-day notes rose to 3.374%, the highest since the 1933 bank holiday. The rate on short-term commercial loans also rose to the highest in...
Less successful papers have thus been quick to feel the pinch of production costs, long fattened by featherbedding mechanical unions and skyrocketing newsprint prices, which at $146 a ton (v. $134 in New York) are six times the prewar level. Aggrieved by the Laborite Herald's woes, one Labor...