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...moves fast. It is full of sophisticated ideas to be sung or spoken; it exhibits a bunch of likable new faces, a few of which should catch the spotlight more & more. But the product is not quite up to the packaging. For all its expensive gloss, its Raoul Pene du Bois sets and John Murray Anderson staging, it never really bankrolls 'em in the aisles...
...they were the highest (estimated: $42.5 billion) of any year except 1951's alltime record; afterward, they were the lowest of any year since 1946's marginal, reconversion-battered first quarter. Some of the typical casualties: General Motors' net off 10%, U.S. Steel's 10%, Du Font's 15%, Union Carbide & Carbon's 20%, U.S. Rubber's 30%, topped by Libbey-Owens-Ford...
When men's summer suits made out of new synthetic fabrics appeared last y»ar, they were little more than a novelty. Supplies, from the pilot plants first built by the big chemical companies (Du Pont, Union Carbide, etc.), were so limited that few customers could get suits. Last week, for the first time, the suits were available in goodly quantities. Result: merchants, whose clothing business had been in a marked slump, found customers crowding their stores with a curiosity faintly reminiscent of the onetime rush for ballpoint pens...
Synthetics still have a long way to go to overtake wool (annual U.S. consumption: 478 million Ibs.). But Du Pont, Union Carbide and others are building and blueprinting big new plants, which shortly will permit a tremendous expansion in production. Soon dynel will be spilling out at a rate of 26 million Ibs. a year, Dacron at 35 million Ibs., Orion at 36 million Ibs. When that time comes, the wool industry, already quaking, will have to look sharp lest it go the way of silk...
...Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier. An expert mixture of suspense and romantic hokum (TIME...