Buyer’s market returns as 1955 patterns unfold
The era’s shift toward aggressive competition in business frames a return to consumer dominance. With policies in Washington and remobilization after war, manufacturers race to produce more goods, cut prices, and capture dollars, while inflation risks are managed to keep the consumer king in a booming economy.
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Paul in Corinth Finds Presence and Purpose in Crisis
In Corinth Paul stays to preach amid opposition, aided by Aquila, Priscilla, Silas, and Timothy. Galio declines to judge, Paul 18 months teaching, with faith that God is with him and many are saved. the piece urges unity and opposing tyranny while advancing love and truth.
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Eisenhower declines speeches amid Lincoln birthday rush
President Eisenhower refuses local celebration invites citing Washington duties as the White House schedules a major speech later. GOP chair C Wesley Roberts also stays off public appearances to back governors and 1954 campaigns. Senator Brewster faces Civil Aeronautics Board and Maritime Administration scrutiny as potential GSA candidate competes with Forbes Ehrlicher Bunche. Taft quips on wartime price controls versus peacetime. Biemiller joins AFL staff, leveraging former Congressman access on Capitol Hill.
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Notable Odds and Ends from Daily Life and Politics
A mix of brief items touches on consumer gadgets a washing device using sound waves, skin color science, Grant’s memoirs, mink coat rentals in Chicago, pranks and language notes, political lobbying rulings, and congressional activity. Highlights include salary and act details, farmers price supports debates, and a Korea relation remark from Ambassador You Chang Yang.
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Confucius on Broadway and Washington A Patchwork Column
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Ideas and business mix in the modern economy
Leo Cherne argues in The Saturday Review that ideas drive production and profit, detailing how mass production and capital formation differ under capitalism and socialism. He notes profit as the sustaining motive, cites Edison and the zipper as examples, and questions social theories of motivation versus market incentives.
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