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...current Broadway season, with 30 openings so far, is one of the leanest on record. It will not get much fatter in the months ahead, and most of its dramatic weight will be supplied by revivals. Some of them...
Tires & Pistons. Wallard's victory, like most, was won before the race began. Owner Murrell Belanger, a wealthy Crown Point, Ind. auto dealer (Chrysler-Plymouth) and ex-racer who dabbles in the sport for the fun of it, knew that the new "beefed up" (i.e., fatter) tires would produce more speed, particularly on the turns. Belanger also figured that a light, rear-drive car, though it gives a rougher ride, would require fewer fuel stops, that a simple, four-cylinder power plant would require fewer pit stops. As a result, Belanger's aluminum-shelled special turned...
There was nothing much wrong with stocky Mrs. Gertrude Levandowski, now 58, until her husband died ten years ago. Then she began to gain weight. She did her best to take care of her house outside the small town of Burnips, Mich. (pop. 250), but as she got fatter & fatter, housework became more difficult. When she reached nine feet in circumference, all she could do was sit on a strong chair, smile cheerfully and peel a few potatoes. Her son Charles, 17, took over the housework...
...Wrist-Slapping. To enforce price controls, Mike DiSalle profited by mistakes of OPA in World War II. Then essential, low-priced items disappeared from the shelves as manufacturers channeled their materials into fancy sports shirts, frilly dresses and expensive gimcracks which brought fatter profits. In his freeze order, DiSalle prohibited manufacturers from switching to higher-priced lines, or producing cheaper "similar" products for the same price. He persuaded Mobilizer Wilson to issue a new order to his Defense Production Administration-it authorized DPA to use its priorities and allocations to force manufacturers to produce adequate quantities of inexpensive apparel...
...that Britain has more dollars to spend on newsprint from Canada, chief supplier of U.S. newspapers. A bigger reason is that U.S. newspapers have got so fat that they are now using 60% of the total world supply, v. only 44% before the war. And they are getting fatter...