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...never before; sales topped those in 1941, when everyone had told himself it would be the last real Christmas for the duration. The people did not insist on luxuries, or on necessities ; they bought everything. With money jingling in their pockets, they swarmed up to the counters; they said wrap it up before they asked the price. In Cleveland, employes of Lincoln Electric Co. got bonuses averaging $3,000. In Beverly Hills, an uppity dowager surveyed the crowd in Saks's swank shop, asked: "Who are all these people?" Cracked the salesgirl: "They're cash customers...
...write news, editorials, advertisements, keep books, pay bills, read proof, clean type, set headlines, set news and editorials, pay bills, set jobs, feed press, cut paper, wrap bundles, solicit advertisements, solicit subscriptions, pay bills, repair presses and linotype (jackleg repairing), splice belts, saw metal cuts, pay bills, chisel cuts, make up newspaper, order supplies, tell people where the local draft board is, tell others where the town's lawyer might be, tell still others that silly rumor they were excited about was only a silly rumor, pay bills, wash forms, distribute type, solicit job printing, pacify irate subscribers whose...
This program would seem to wrap TACA up in the American flag for keeps. Nevertheless, whispers still flew about "sinister British influence." One whisper (that Schroder Rockefeller is controlled by London's famed banking firm of J. Henry Schroder & Co.) was not hard to answer. For under terms of the plan American individuals (not Schroder Rockefeller) would boss TACA. Another objection had more substance: Yerex would still own all of British West Indian Airways and one-third of TACA's Brazilian offshoot...
...Just wrap up a quart...
Lost. In Jamestown, N.Y., a young woman wrote to ask a bus company to return her wrap-around skirt which had come off without her noticing it while she was riding home...