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There was no denying the fever. Last week the chart of the nation's inflated economy spurted higher & higher. Wholesale prices reached a new postwar top (59.2% above the base year of 1926), after three weeks of record-breaking climb. For the second month in a row, average factory wages passed the $50-a-week mark, to a new record...
...found what he wanted in a mild young man named Bleriot H. Lamarre, a $28-a-week bookkeeper married to a handsome brunette named Mildred Readnower. Mildred had been Benny Meyers' secretary at Wright Field. Bookkeeper Lamarre became Aviation Electric's new president. But he was boss on the letterheads only; Meyers told him what to do and how much to pay himself ($38 a week...
Magic carpets and wishing lamps are hard to come by these days in London's middle-class Fulham. Nevertheless, pretty, honey-blonde Katherine Scott had no intention of living out her years in Marville Road and some day marrying a young shipping clerk or a ?5-a-week railroad carter like her father. One glamorous day, when Cinemactor Ray Milland came to London, 16-year-old Katherine wangled an interview with him and Ray promised to get her a screen test. Katherine told all her friends, and the garish News of the World sent a photographer around to take...
Destiny's Boy. Squatly handsome Gordon McRae, 26, believes that his career as a crooner was predestined: "I'm a very religious guy, you know. I believe that everyone has his own niche. . . ." From Deerfield Academy, destiny took Gordon to NBC as a $16-a-week pageboy. But he did not get very far, so the story goes, until CBS Board Chairman William Paley heard him sing...
Expensive Bargains. Sophie designs by telling one of her $125-a-week modelmakers exactly what she wants. To save money, a "mockup" of the dress is usually made first, in cheap muslin. When this is satisfactory, the muslin serves as a pattern. Compared to her costs, Sophie's selling prices of $255 to $1,500 are comparatively modest. Example: in her most expensive evening dress, the ermine trim alone cost $500, the chiffon another $76, overhead and workmanship, $294. With the markup of 42%, the selling price...