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Because Leon Henderson removed its price ceiling, the long slumbering cotton grey goods market woke up with a bang last week. In only two days an estimated 25,000,000-30,000,000 yards of print cloths -more than a week's capacity production -were sold in Manhattan's Worth Street, biggest volume since July. By week's end the huge cotton textile industry had hung the "Sold Out" sign on 90% of its fourth-quarter output; many mills (especially those making tough work-clothing denims) were booked through Lincoln's birthday...
...thumping headache last week followed the shopping spree which sent U.S. citizens scurrying into stores to buy before the stiff new Federal excise taxes clamped down, Oct. 1. They woke to find that, on purchases made after the new tax went into effect, they not only had to pay the increased tax but several times the tax increase, because of the retailers' time-honored system of price markups...
Sept. 15. There is a vivid passage on the attempted invasion. "I'm sure that something happened on September 15 . . . . I woke up to hear our next door neighbour backing his car stealthily out of the garage . . . . I leant out the window. The night was calm and moonlit; the moon sparkled on the flat sea. And there was a subdued hum everywhere, far and near, as if hundreds of cars were on the roads and lanes. I was so restless . . . . I got up and dressed and went out, up the road a little way into the fields. I could...
...wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde early in 1886. At the time he was living in Bournemouth, England, ill with tuberculosis, suffering recurrent hemorrhages of the lungs. Friends could visit him for no more than a quarter-hour at a stretch. One night his wife woke him from a particularly violent nightmare. "I was dreaming a fine bogey tale," he told her, and at once began sketching out the story of Jekyll and his evil companion-up to the transformation scene, where he had been awakened...
Douglas Bader cracked up bringing an R.A.F. plane out of a slow roll in 1931, woke up with both legs amputated, one at the thigh, one at the knee. He fitted himself with a pair of four-pound, duralumin, flexible-jointed legs designed by the brothers Desoutter, one of whom also lost a limb in an air crash. Douglas Bader learned to fox trot, play cricket, turn a backward somersault, finally had one leg shortened for further agility...