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...years ago Dave Smart, onetime stenographer and merchandising counsel, had virtually no publishing experience except as part owner with William Hobart Weintraub of a little clothing-trade journal modeled after Printers' Ink. But in 1931 they named it Apparel Arts and revamped it in a slick imitation of the new magazine FORTUNE. Their success was striking-so striking that within six years Publisher Smart, on the crest of the wave, was asking, "Why didn't somebody tell me about this publishing game before? It's a cinch...
...Gaby Deslys: "One bit of apparel came near to disrupting her performance. It was black, and in the back of it were three discomfiting apertures so extensive that they suggested preparedness for a major operation...
...bogey, "the juggernaut of collectivism." N. R. D. G. A. counsel Irving Fox discussed the Wagner Act, said retailers might soon have real union trouble ("the noose is slowly . . . tightening"). Other topics: "Has Your Store A Personality?," " 'Quickie Bars' for Hasty Patrons," "Dermatitis from Wearing Apparel." The delegates authorized a committee to raise funds for destitute British drapers...
...spite of this, retail prices rose about 1% in 1940's first half. Main retail advances: bread (1? a loaf in northern cities) and woolen and silk apparel. Offsetting this over-all rise, home furnishing prices fell 2½% (paced by a 10% to 15% decline in refrigerators...
...full effect of the 25% price rise in raw wool was aggravated by lack of capacity for converting it into wool tops, from which worsted fabrics are made. Result: wool top prices rose considerably more than raw wool. By November, the pressure was moving onto the dyers and apparel makers, whose prices are so far little changed. The woolen industry planned on raising prices to apparel manufacturers by 10%, if the Army wanted to outfit 1,300,000 men. The industry talked of doubling the price increase and of rationing civilian supplies as well, if orders came to outfit...