Price Rises Stir Inflation Fears Across Sectors
New government data hint at renewed inflation risk after years of deflationary trends. Prices in sugar and metals edge up while services lift cost of living. forecasters warn gains may be individual and not part of a broad trend. Analysts cite strong competition and high unemployment as dampeners on nationwide price increases. The piece also lists Wisconsin public officials and notes on the state health board.
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Darden Chambliss
New York
Dex
U.S. Steel
Kennedy
Reynolds Names Five to Agencies
Gov Reynolds appoints five people to three state commissions pending Senate confirmation. Named are Mrs Pauline Coggs 51 of Milwaukee to replace Charles F P Brecher of Janesville on the State Personnel Board. Mrs Coggs is the wife of Milwaukee attorney Theodore W Coggs.
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Madison
Reynolds
Senate
Pauline Coggs
Milwaukee
Charles FP. Brecher
Janesville
Costly Movies and the Gamble Behind Hollywood Epics
Hollywood studios reveal high costs and break even points for major films. Cleopatra cost about 40 million with 62 million needed to turn a profit. Mutiny on the Bounty costs loom large, Brando’s film required 31 million on a 19 million spend, MGM wrote off eight million. How the West Was Won succeeds financially, while Gone With the Wind remains top in rentals. MIT names its first professor of cryogenics in 1949.
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MGM
20Th Century-Fox
Take
Cleo
Fox
Darryl F. Zanuck
Ben-Hur
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Washington Urban League
University of Wisconsin
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William Thomas
Gordon Leonard
Thomas
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John S. Hollingsworth
Sheboygan
State Board of Health
William B. Gallagher
la Crosse
W. Clark
Skopje
Yugoslavia
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17Th Avenue
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Sale
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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