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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Brothels are taboo in Miami Beach because 1) they are bad for the home trade, and 2) there are plenty just across the bay in Miami. Gambling flourished until 1936. Then Levi & Co. concluded that gambling racketeers were also bad for business, banged down the lid on everything except one legalized dog-track (which pays the city $50 a day during the season...
...sans of all kinds, built most of the buildings on the hill. St. Christopher's Inn, housing 200 men, has become too small, is to have a five-story addition. Last year the friars handed out 175,000 meals. No questions are asked of any Brother Chris topher except his name and the name of his next of kin. The friars, supported by outside donations, give their lodgers 10? worth of tobacco or candy a day, ask those who stay more than a day to work. Most stay about six weeks; one Brother Christopher remained for 15 years before...
...Metals, price-cutting on copper continued (TIME, Jan. 29). The industry followed Kennecott down to 11¼? a lb. (war boom high: 13?), still failed to induce new orders. By now U. S. coppermen have become bearish on war export prospects (except to Russia-see p. 69). The trade anticipates a 33% cut in output if reordering does not save it in the next few weeks. Lead prices were cut twice in as many weeks for the same reason...
Nothing will do, declares Wells, except a social revolution, "profounder even than the revolution attempted by the Communists in Russia." That one failed, declares he, "not by its extremism but through the impatience, violence, and intolerance of its onset, through lack of foresight, and intellectual insufficiency...
Federal Unionists, scoffs Wells, are too tame, too "hopelessly optimistic." But except for Wells' more bumptious language, his "Western Revolution" (led by "a sufficient number of minds throughout the world . . .") is considerably vaguer than Clarence Streit...