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What caused the U.S. housing shortage? What, if anything, can cure it? To these questions, which directly or indirectly concern 139,000,000 Americans, FORTUNE devotes its entire April issue, achieving a remarkably concise diagnosis -but a prognosis obscured by the chronic ill health of U.S. housing...
...needed for the surviving textile plants. Transport has to be repaired: river and coastal shipping is down to 100,000 tons from the prewar 1,500,000; railway coverage has shrunk to a fourth of the prewar meager 16,000 miles. Broken dikes must be mended, whole cities rehoused, chronic inflation checked...
...E.S.T.), few listeners knew Mel by name. But millions probably knew him as Jack Benny's English butler, train announcer, parrot, French violin teacher and news reporter; as Burns & Allen's melancholy postman; as Judy Canova's Pedro, Salesman Roscoe Wortle and a chronic hiccougher; as Bob Hope's "Private Snafu"; as Abbott & Costello's Scotsman...
Along with symptoms of new vigor, old King Cotton also exhibited symptoms of chronic weaknesses. So the Department of Agriculture diagnosed last week...
...neurasthenoid person hurts all over, wakes up tired and can always think of some eating mistake, or a draft, or a change in routine, to account for his misery. Many such "chronic invalids" give away the fact that they are not really sick by being crashing business successes...