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Lack of know-how, lack of labor, and a virus carried from plant to plant by an aphid left U.S. growers four or five years away from capturing a $20,000,000-a-year business. Imports of bulbs dropped off even before Pearl Harbor. Reason: the Japanese were eating the vitamin-rich bulbs, as they had done centuries before the West turned their flowers into symbols of the resurrection of the Prince of Peace...
...years, quiet, sharp-faced Clarence Edward Gauss (rhymes with boss) has been in the U.S. foreign service (he began as a $900-a-year State Department clerk). For 28 years he has represented the U.S. in China...
...Kansas City, Brooklyn Dodger Outfielder Frenchy Bordagaray, weakening on his decision to retire to tavern-keeping, advertised: "The Bums is calling me. For Sale - $12,000-a-year business - cheap...
...stiff. With inflation control in mind, he bravely announced that he intended to get eight of his 13 billions from nonbanking sources. To help, he set up a new Treasury War Finance Committee, headed by General Foods Vice President William M. Robbins, whom he took away from a $1-a-year WPB job. Handsome William Robbins, 41, who specialized in sales before he went to Washington, has the world's biggest selling job on his hands now: in one swoop he must raise 56 times as much money as big General Foods took in during...
Advertising, the vital $450,000,000-a-year industry which sparks most other industries and pumps lifeblood into the nation's press, had great trouble converting itself to war. In the first shock of conversion-as happened in many of the industries it represents-much advertising was terrible: hysterical, ridiculous, extreme. But U.S. advertising, whose virtues are seldom praised outside its own precincts, has so successfully weathered the crisis that by last week much of it had reached new high standards...