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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Coyle, U.S. society is in the grip of a growing "organization of scarcity"-not because of actual productive lack, but because the oldtime concept of thrift has been subverted into a modern concept of saving. He points out that investors, in their desire to save, have pushed far more money into capital markets since 1919 than business could profitably employ. Rather, they should buy goods and services. (An old Coyle saying: "Saving for a rainy day only makes it rain...
Opera Auditions (Sun. 5 p.m. NBC-Blue). The Metropolitan begins its fourth consecutive season of broadcasting actual auditions for aspiring singers...
...traditional architecture came slam-bang into dramatic contrast last week between the covers of LIFE. On eleven double-page spreads appeared eight plans for houses, four by "modern"' architects arrayed against four by "traditional"' architects, each pair designed to meet the needs and income of an actual U. S. family. By this presentation LIFE hoped: 1) to inform its readers of how easily any family earning from $2,000 to $10,000 a year can build an efficient, pleasant home; 2) to poll its readers on the relative popularity of the two types of home building...
...rail prices for 1938's fourth quarter $2.50 per ton, bringing them into line with other steel prices, which it left unchanged. Other companies quickly followed suit. Said Iron Age: "While the reductions tend to restrict the possibilities for profit in steel making, this is more theoretical than actual, as there has been virtually no business in these lines for some months. . . ." Once steel's No. 1 customer, U. S. railroads have bought only 12,296,600 tons since 1933, compared to 27,200,000 in the 1927-32 period. Only road to give any inkling of buying...
Best-seller lists are generally compounded of publishers' ballyhoo and booksellers' hopes, do not include children's books or reprints. TIME'S list, arranged in order of nationwide sales, is based on actual sales figures for last month, supplied by leading U. S. bookstores: WITH MALICE TOWARD SOME-Margaret Halsey-Simon & Schuster...