Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eased slightly. In March, the U.S. Department of Commerce reported, employment had increased by 479,000, mostly on farms. (Since newcomers had entered the labor force, the drop in unemployment was only 54,000.) Another bright sign came from General Motors. Demand for its cars was still so big that, with steel in better supply, G.M. last week stepped up production by shifting key departments to a 54-hour week (v. 40 hours before), with a 30% increase in take-home pay for the workers affected...
...proper Bostonians it looked as if a riot had broken out. A crowd of 5,000 pushing, milling people surged against the brawny arms of bluecoats. But it was not quite a riot: it was merely the first big postwar men's-wear sale at Filene's bargain basement. Filene's had been getting ready for 36 months, by picking up slow-selling lots of merchandise (men's suits, topcoats and overcoats) from other stores. It had everything from $65 suits with John Wanamaker's label to bulky lumps of cheap woolens. Last week...
...biggest (20,000 tons) U.S. passenger liner to be built in a decade. She and a sister ship, the Constitution, will be built by the Bethlehem Steel Co. at a cost of $46,800,000 between them. They will carry 1,000 passengers apiece, and will be the first big passenger carriers to be air-conditioned from stem to stern. Operating between New York and Naples and Genoa, they will add 60,000 berths a year to Atlantic travel. They can be converted to troopships carrying more than 5,000 men each...
...Smith, resident partner of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, biggest U.S. brokerage house. "Ferd" Smith's office staff pooh-poohed the idea at first, but Smith argued that women, besides doing most of the spending in the U.S., have also become important owners of U.S. business. In many big corporations (U.S. Steel, General Motors, A.T. & T., etc.) women stockholders outnumber men. And sooner or later, most women have to take on the job of managing their husbands' estates. Yet few women are trained in money management, or know anything about interpreting balance sheets...
...year's end, when four-year-old whisky is expected to be plentiful, liquor men will face a big sales problem. During wartime, when aged whisky was scarce, distillers stretched the supply by blending it. (i.e., mixing it with grain alcohol). They plugged blends so well-and straights were so hard to get-that now six bottles of blended whisky are sold for every one bottle of straight (compared with a prewar ratio of one-for-one). Distillers will have to do more than cut blend prices; they will have to lure drinkers back to straight whisky, probably...