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...write as tenderly about his own children (see his Rainy Day} as any other man living. Nash does most of his writing, however, in the guise of a sensitive prune. He speaks for the cartoon 20th-century American male-the subway-ridden goofus whose personality is deeply engraved on his cigaret lighter, and whose most ambitious ethical concept is "if it's trite, it's right." Nash knows his American civilization, and he can write about it like an efficiency expert in baggy pants. His light verse is a remarkable rhetorical invention. Where McCord, a traditionalist, makes...
...sign of smart merchandising, meaning faster turnover, fresher and more attractive goods. In 1941, low inventories are also a danger signal. If storekeepers keep their shelves so bare in the face of a still soaring demand, they may soon awake to find themselves forced to buy in a priorities-ridden seller's market, bidding prices up. The fear that prices will soon be higher has recently gripped businessmen, Government men and consumers alike. Consumers have expressed their fear by stocking up while prices are low, buying almost everything in sight; department stores have...
...powers entitle it to do - the history of its international trade revival in the American Century will date not from the beginning of the war but from 1936. For in that year a seagoing President and a willing Congress set up the Maritime Commission, to replace the ineffectual, graft-ridden Shipping Board, with orders to build up the U. S. Merchant Marine...
This was the Florida of the headlines, of the columns, of salesgirls' dreams. It was the Florida which Columnist Lucius Beebe last week called "the last Gomorrah, the ultimate Babylon, the final Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter-Whirlwind, superdeluxe, extra-special, colossal, double-feature and Zombie-ridden madhouse of the world." And it was as far from the rest of Florida as Mr. Beebe was from the many-millioned humanity of his own Manhattan...
...pigs and chickens. A political fight has frozen the funds supposed to support the colony, which sinks deeper in debt every time it buys the meagre rations of coffee, rice and beans it lives on. Only bright spot was the morale and spirit of the colonists themselves who, ridden with anemia and malaria, work desperately hard, hold classes for natives...