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Down Profits. WPB's piano ban was mainly laid down to force the highly skilled piano craftsmen into war work. The shift has been unprofitable, from the management view. Payrolls have risen sharply, but earnings are down. Recently Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., biggest U.S. maker of pianos, reported a net profit of $1.63 per share for the last fiscal year, way under the $2.48 of 1941. Only cheer for manufacturers: the thousands of new piano players should make for the greatest market in their history...
...attached to the medieval way of life that nearly all his voluminous writings (My Life in Architecture, The End of Democracy) were concerned with his vision of its resurgence. His dream of the neo-medieval future included: a return of self-sufficient walled towns; a return of craftsmen's guilds; abolition of mass production; abolition of gunpowder, the printing press, the combustion engine; "return to the land"; a semi-monarchical political setup for the U.S., which would be ruled by a chief elected for life by the governors of the states...
...confess to being one of the luckiest, as well as the laziest, reporters who ever lived, but I have always drawn the line at larceny, especially from one of my fellow craftsmen. I particularly resent any intimation that I would practice banditry or burglary on Ray Clapper, whom I have always admired intensely and have regarded as one of the greatest newspapermen in the country...
...That Aztec craftsmen, who decorated every available square inch of their Spanish Gothic and baroque churches, created a native hybrid style known as Mexican churrigueresque, which in turn influenced the baroque and rococo architecture of Spain...
This morning organized labor appears closer to the unity that it has long needed for even more effectiveness than at any time since John L. Lewis started building up the C.I.O. on the industrial organization theory of unionization. The craftsmen of the A.F. of L., considering themselves as the skilled aristocrats of labor, have never been able to stomach the idea that the vertical union was here to stay. On their refusal to concede the necessity of industrial organization in order to attain bargaining power in large, mass production factories, has rested the blame for the failure of the half...