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Retail sales for October (see chart, p. 84) were running above sales for the same month last year even after price advances were discounted. Total dollar volume for the year may reach $56 billions as against the $48 billions of palmy...
Says Dr. Robert Loeb of Columbia: "When overnutrition is abolished in a community, the incidence of diabetes is decreased." Thus the U.S. diabetes death rate slumped in 1918-19 when sugar was scarce, but sugar consumption alone is by no means responsible for the diabetic death rate (see chart). Diabetic deaths dropped dramatically in Germany from 1917 to 1924-starvation's silver lining...
...Builder Kaiser, rolling swiftly about the town, testified before two Senate committees, conferred with WPBoss Donald Nelson, spoke at a National Press Club luncheon, held a two-hour press conference for women reporters in his chart-littered suite at the Shoreham Hotel. The women were fascinated by a man who talked facts to them, who did not talk down to them. His proposal even crashed the society page of the Washington Post, under that paper's new wartime policy of writing social notes almost exclusively about people active in the war effort...
...figures illustrated by this chart were released by the Commerce Department last week to prove one cheerful point: so far the U.S. has had only a dribble of inflation. Main reason is that during April, May and June U.S. citizens wisely socked away most of their increased income, piled up new savings at the rate of $25 billion a year v. only $11 billion in 1941. Trouble is, Americans are buying only $8 billion in war bonds a year, hence by year's end will have $17 billion in cash to squander...
...after-tax profits of 200 big-time corporations tabulated by the National City Bank fell to $230,000,000, 16% below the first three months and 39% under the final quarter of 1941. While farm income and wages reached for the sky, corporation profits plunged for the pavement (see chart...