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...record." "About as near as you can get, in an armchair, to being in the midst of battle," said The Nation. And Foster Hailey wrote in the New York Times that Tarawa is "a superlative job of reporting, obviously written at white heat while the sounds of Betio still rang in Sherrod's ears and the smell of it still hung in his nostrils...
Leila Drew rang the gate bell of the modernistic house at No. 1770 Calle Tronador. Inside, she passed two babies playing at a yard man's knee. She asked to see Señora Diligenti. The Señora was nervous and reluctant, but after a woman-to-woman sales talk Mrs. Drew got a look at the other three babies, in neat yellow cribs in a sunny downstairs nursery. She even had her hands on a picture of all five, when forceful Papa Diligenti (whose name means just what it looks like) came in and took it away...
Standard & Poor's totted up the profits of 206 representative companies, found they had edged up not quite 5%. The New York Sun rang up the net incomes of 215 companies, found they were up a bare 2%. With U.S. production up a solid 17% during the year, this was little enough to crow about - with renegotiation still to come. But renegotiation, trimming off the lard, may not be such a hazard now: during the year, many a corporation sensibly slashed its prices to Uncle Sam. And as an additional bulwark, many companies built up special renegotiation reserves...
...Utilities. Even the utilities, which long ago were thought to be bumping against ceilings both as to capacity and profit, came through with a surprising rise. Commonwealth & Southern rang up $12,312,000 v. $10,375,000 in 1942. But giant A.T. & T. had harder going. To boost its net some $13,000,000 to $177,769,000, it had to heave up its gross nearly...
Almost immediately the telephone rang! Suspecting an over-anxious chamber of commerce, I strolled to the phone to hear "Nikki" on the wire--Nikki, whom I "whistled at when you came through the lobby." Now my whistle isn't bad, but, generally speaking, it's pretty well controlled, and I protested my innocence. But the more we discussed the matter, the more insistent "Nik" became...