Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some had been borrowed from U.S. museums and private collections. Many had never been seen in the U.S. before. Others, like The Milkmaid (owned by the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), had been sent originally to the New York World's Fair. One jewellike Domestic Scene by Jan Steen was lent by King George of England, reached the U.S. by bomber. The 70 masterpieces, insured for $5,000,000, represented one of the most valuable art hoards of its size ever assembled in a private gallery...
...paid out for necessities between Aug. 1, 1909 and July 31, 1914, a period of lush agricultural prosperity. The object of parity: to give farmers the same purchasing power now that they had in that period. The reason: when the New Deal started in 1933 to try to get fair prices for farmers, a yardstick of "fairness" was needed and lobbyists picked a favorable yardstick...
Fact was that Condè Nast was a sound publishing property. It had fought its way put of heavy depression losses ($500,000 m 1933). Taking cognizance of the new luxury-clipped realities, it had unloaded Vanity Fair and The American Golfer, tapped wider audiences with Hollywood Patterns and Glamour. What it needed now to keep it solvent was shrewd management. Condè-Nastians agree that President "Pat" Patcèvitch promises a more solvent future than anybody else in sight...
...Government buying will absorb nearly 35-40% of this season's canned fruits & vegetables, 60-80% of tinned fish, a good part of the canned soup (so that all will get a fair share of what is left, OPA will ration distribution, which will probably mean that independents will get more than their share of what is left...
...BATS FLY AT DUSK - A. A. Fair -Morrow ($2). Private Detective Bertha Cool, minus her diminutive partner, Donald Lam, though absent from scene, supplies the right answers to both murders, a spot of forgery, and other villainy. An exceptionally clever plot, much lusty humor - and Bertha Cool, saltiest of female sleuths...