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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Things are changing in Central America. The millions of little fellows who for centuries had to be content with thatched huts, mud floors, beans, tortillas and abject poverty have been stirred by Mexico's example and are beginning to ask for more. You find such old line Central American generals as General Castenada talking worriedly of the need for social security laws and labor codes...
Conservative Manifesto. Sophie has always been content to let more flashy designers go their own gait, and doesn't worry about trying to set a trend. She believes in the maxim that the best-dressed women follow the fashions at a discreet distance. Her style is to be simple and unaffected. Says she: "I try to make a woman look as sexy as possible and yet look like a perfect lady." Many women want to look like that. Consequently, Sophie probably sells more clothes than any other designer, with the possible exception of her archrival, Hattie Carnegie...
Loosened Grip. Another wartime restriction died quietly when the Department of Commerce removed the restrictions on the use of natural rubber for some 30,000 industrial products. Unaffected by the new ruling were automobile tires and tubes, whose natural-rubber content will continue to be fixed (23% for pleasure cars). By maintaining its control over the automobile industry's rubber supply, which accounts for 72% of U.S. rubber consumption, the Department hopes to keep at least part of the U.S. synthetic rubber industry operating...
...critic said that Aleksandrov's "weakness for abstract and vague formulations brings him to the point where correct Marxist theses are drowning in them, and the revolutionary content of Marxism is sometimes replaced by abstract discussions...
...Yorker's perfection; because perfection, in the mind of Harold Ross, is not a goal or an ideal, but something that belongs to him, like his watch or his hat." In 22 years, this has enormously complicated the once casual synthesis of the magazine: "Ross is no longer content with a profile; he requests also a family history, bank reference, social security number, urinalysis, catalogue of household possessions, names of all living relatives, business connections, political affiliations, as well as a profile...