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Visitors may examine pictures as long as they like (the Hall of Art's sales staff practices "negative selling"). While onlookers look (there are comfortable chairs and settees for the less rugged), a radio plays soft music, an imitation-marble figurine of a naked girl (with an electric bulb inside) sheds a subdued light on a mohogany console. Promoter Pochapin's managerial desk stands near a wall, for anyone to approach...
First step in the Brazilian expansion program is a $1,000,000 addition to the, electric-light-bulb plant at Rio de Janeiro. Erected in 1920, the Rio plant is large and modern, employs 2,000 people, has many Brazilians in key positions. Native engineers have been brought to the U.S., sent to college, and given post-graduate work in G.E. plants. Under these trained technicians, bulb sales at Rio are expected to jump from $15 to $40 million annually when the new building is completed this year...
...Holy Week began, Easter lilies were scarce in U.S. floral shops, as they were last year, but no more expensive ($7.50 to $12 a dozen, or $2.50 to $6 & up for a potted plant). U.S. horticulturists had barely begun to fill the demand left when bulb imports from Japan stopped...
...ridge to the command post, cajoles himself into the bomber, bums a ride in the General's jeep. The photographer is there with his tripod, his fast-action film; he is there with a cloud filter for the dogfight in the stratosphere; there with a flash bulb in the bloody alley where the body lies...
...provides on any stage, Duke in 20 years has made practically no concessions to public taste. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1899. His father, a retired Navy Yard blueprint worker, was comparatively well off. The Ellington family owned its own home and even an auto with a bulb horn. Ellington was given piano lessons at the age of six but went through high school expecting to be a painter...