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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...date, Personal Shopping (which operates solely for the benefit of TLI bureaumen) has been a constantly expanding service, and Buckner, who has to purchase many of the "rush" items himself, is now quite at home in the unmentionables departments of Manhattan's stores. He has had orders for almost everything, from washable dolls with eyes that open & close to automobile jack assemblies and girdles. The one constant in his business, however, is the three most requested items from all of TLI's bureaus throughout the world: cigarets, coffee, vitamin pills...
...Gables. "We shall live to see the day," wrote Hawthorne, "when no man shall build his house for posterity. Why should he? He might just as reasonably order a durable suit of clothes-leather, or guttapercha, or whatever else lasts longest-so that his great-grandchildren should have the benefit of them, and cut precisely the same figure in the world that he himself does. ... I doubt whether even our public edifices-our capitols, statehouses, courthouses, city-hall and churches-ought to be built of such permanent materials as stone or brick. It were better that they should crumble...
...Henry Ford had two months ago, Fowler McCormick cut the prices of his products (tractors, trucks, farm machinery) a round $20,000,000 a year, almost 5% of his gross sales. Harvester is not worried about a drop in sales-yet. But, said McCormick: "We decided to give the benefit [of high earnings] to customers rather than stockholders or employees because the time is here to recognize customers as an integral part of a business. Our present wage-price-profit mechanism is out of date. All industry finds itself in the same situation. . . . We have done something for our stockholders...
...that the Club 100 has resorted to in defense. The private social club has every right to choose its members selectively, using any criterion it sees fit. But the abuse of this right by a patently commercial tavern, operating quite openly for private profit and not for the social benefit of any select few who gather there, must not be mistaken for a legal or moral case. While Harvard students and all comers receive the mantle of membership at the door of the organization, an fulfill the other obligations of membership by filing this charter in their wallets...
Scientists connected with Brookhaven are careful to say that the laboratory will not develop new atomic explosives, but will concentrate on making nuclear physics benefit humanity. But the project will do no harm to the national war potential. Atomic secrets (if any still exist) may yet leak or be rediscovered abroad. The job of Brookhaven and other U.S.-sponsored laboratories is to develop atomic know-how so fast that the U.S. lead cannot be overtaken...