Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...signal for it came not from Business, but from events. Within 15 days of France's fall, the Army & Navy began to dump orders of $41,000,000 a day in industry's lap. The important fact about these orders was that they were for capital goods. For the first time in more than a decade, industry's prime mover-capital-goods expansion-agitated the indexes again. The steel rate soared from 60% of capacity (April) to 92% in September. At 11:30 p.m., on Dec. 9, steelworkers finishing the second shift also finished an era. They...
...this plant-doubling, Aluminum Co. set aside $150,000,000 of its own money, earned 1940's gold medal for silent, voluntary expansion for the Defense program. Its soft-shirted, soft-voiced management took the Revolution in its stride. When a new TVA appropriation came up last summer. Aluminum men, who knew they would need extra kilowatts if Defense lasted, helped the Administration lobby it through Congress. Yet the year's end found even Aluminum, Co. behind on deliveries. Sadly it prepared an advertising campaign for the peacetime customers it wants to keep. The copy: "If you find...
...Eiffel Tower is not displaced by the Empire State Building," cried Mme. Schiaparelli early last month, at a Los Angeles Junior League luncheon. Fashioneers were not amused. In Manhattan last fortnight, Mme. Schiaparelli made her farewell speech-on the same day that delayed news came from Paris that Lucien Lelong's "corporative reorganization" of the fashion industry had been completed...
Frau Helene Scheu-Riesz (pronounced Shoy-Reese) began her literary career in Vienna, age 18, with translations of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She also wrote a novel, Der Revolutionär, which came out spang during the 1918 revolution, had quite a succès d'estime. The Scheu-Rieszes have long mixed politics and publishing. Her husband, who died before the Anschluss, published some 200 children's books from different languages in an effort to broaden the viewpoint of Viennese primary school children, who were using "dreadfully nationalistic" primers. In off hours Frau Scheu-Riesz organized a kind...
Frau Scheu-Riesz came to the U. S. in 1936, began organizing the Island Workshop Press Cooperative last summer. It is composed of people who spend July and August "cooperating" on Ocracoke Island, N. C. One is a Cherokee Indian chief. An other is Blanche C. Weill, whose Through Children's Eyes, "the story of the 'naughty' child and the timid child, told by themselves," was published the same day as Will You Marry Me? A newer cooperator is Robert Haven Schauffler, author of a standard life of Beethoven. The cooperative offers courses in art, literature, creative...