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Show HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the week's news I SPENDING: Higher individual Incomes In-comes resulting from the war boom have boosted sales of various luxuries, lux-uries, a survey by the Northwestern National Life Insurance company shows. The figures reveal that sales of "quality" women's dresses have risen 60 per cent above a year ago, furs C6 per cent, jewelry 35 per cent, playing cards, 56 per cent, and cigarettes 17 per cent. AUTOS: Dealers in new automobiles automo-biles will have to sell to customers holding certificates on a "first-comc-flrst-served basis" hereafter, according accord-ing to an Office of Price Administration Administra-tion ruling. FAMINE: Great Britain will send part of its scanty grain supply to India to relieve a famine in the Bengal Ben-gal region. Lord Woolton, British minister of food, stated recently. |