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...spinach is diamond dust. Last year, Vogue and Harper's made more money than ever (for Conde Nast Publications and Hearst, respectively). Their circulations (Harper's, 225,000, plus 39,000 British; Vogue, 304,000, plus 100,700 British and 12,000 French) are at an alltime peak. Recent issues have been skinnier than last year's ad-fat ones, and to cut costs Vogue recently cut its output from 24 issues a year to 20, boosting its price from 35? to match Harper's (50? a month...
...Industry's argument against the expansionists is based on the economics of production. Because of the scrap shortage, the industry cannot even maintain full use of its present capacity. But the current 85 million-ton production rate, industry points out, is 20 million tons greater than the 1929 "peak prosperity" year. The present steel shortage is largely due to demands that accumulated during the war and that, once satisfied, will slack off. Moreover, the shortage would be intensified by removing from present supply the five million tons of steel it would take to build plants to produce...
...ascent. But the cumulative effect was beginning to make a half-dollar look like a quarter, and a quarter like a jukebox slug. By June 15 the cost of living was 58.5% higher than in the period from 1935-39. (The post-World War I rise reached a peak of 105.2% above 1914 prices.) Clothing had risen 101.6%; food, 96.1%; house furnishings, 78%; fuel...
...members of a Mountaineering Club expedition to scale Mt. Waddington, highest peak in British Columbia, brought back word yesterday of the sudden death of Charles Shiverick '50, killed by an avalanche in the 13,260 foot ascent...
...they waited for the followers whom Mother Ann prophesied would join them in the New World. In 1780, the followers began to show up. From then on, the Shakers slowly spread, settling together in communities called "families" from Maine to southwest Kentucky. Between 1840 and 1860, they attained their peak membership. Their peculiar religious practices caused the world's people to persecute them. Mother Ann's life is believed to have been shortened by a beating she took from a Massachusetts mob. But the Shakers' honesty and industry at last won them general respect...