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...Department's other quarterly figures clearly showed how distorted the first quarter comparison is : net after taxes in the March 1943 period was down 3% from the last quarter of 1942, and was up less than 1% over the third quarter when conversion to war work was still going...
Opium & Acrostics. Editing The Female Poets of America, Griswold was involved in circles so vindictive that modern gang wars seem gentle in comparison. One slighted poetess misused a key to his room, read his private papers each day, quizzed the wives of poets to get material for troublemaking among them. The one delightful and wise woman among the poetesses - Mrs. Frances Sargeant Osgood - was Griswold's friend. She wrote Griswold this acrostic...
...questionings by the police, grafting by smart young Japanese racketeers, and a growing knowledge of how systematically Japan was preparing for war with the U.S. Says Patric: the coprosperity sphere in Asia means much to the average Japanese. Huey Long's "Every man a king" seems picayune in comparison...
...under strict ceiling prices, but OPA regulations on used ones are vague as a beginner's fingers. Roughly, a used piano must not be sold for more than it would have brought in March 1942. But there is a loophole: if a dealer has no basis for comparison, he must abide by what his nearest competitor charges. Thus conservative, well-established houses with a long sales record are neatly tied. But small dealers gaily hop through the loophole, often sell used pianos for more than they brought...
...comparison, the story of the first U.S. ventures, involved in the tangle of airmail contracts in the U.S.. embittered by perplexing fights over routes, makes chastening reading for Americans. A few people-Elmer Faucett of Compaňia de Aviación Faucett and Hugh Wells of Cóndor Peruana de Aviación-challenged the European combines. The German stranglehold was broken when Axis airlines were nationalized by Latin American governments in the past two years. And now, says Aviation Assistant Burden, in cautious language: "The airplane promises to give Latin America a semblance of physical unity...