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...giant, and the sale of bicycles has almost doubled (2,000,000 last year). These are the measuring sticks of the Great Baby Boom-the greatest in U.S. history. They are also the advance signs of how the great growth in U.S. population in the last 13 years will transform the economy -and provide an expanding market for business which it will have to hustle to fall...
...complex fashion code also requires that women have more clothes than men. Explained one young working housewife: "My husband can be well dressed for almost any occasion with only two or three suits in his wardrobe. But with me it's different. Maybe I can transform an office dress with the addition of a rose or a jewel, but you can do just so much of this and get by. A dress that goes well at a cocktail party might fit in at a wedding, but the chances are it won't." Just how this exacting code arose...
...canvas, too, Quinquela has always tried to transform La Boca, along with the rest of his city. A foundling raised by a dockworker, Quinquela started to draw with charcoal before he could read or write, sold his first paintings for five pesos each. Eventually, he earned enough money to buy a half-acre plot, donated it to the government on condition that it build a school there. He filled the school with gay murals, painted doors, benches and tables in gaudy circus colors, even did the blackboards in pink and blue...
RAILROADER Robert Young's "Train X," the low-slung, speedy (up to 150 m.p.h.) train which Young thinks will cut costs drastically and transform passenger travel, will soon be built. The train will have shorter cars, a far lower center of gravity than conventional trains. To build it, Young's Chesapeake & Ohio is teaming up with the New York Central, which is 10% owned by the C. & O. The deal is the first evidence of cooperation between C. & O. and the Central, in which Bob Young thinks he should have a directorship...
...object," says Vinoba Bhave, "is to transform the whole of society. Fire merely burns; it does not worry whether anyone puts a pot on it, fills it with water and puts rice in it to make a meal. Fire burns and does its duty. It is for others to do theirs...