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...Next morning he slept luxuriously late. When he awoke he learned that the sweaters he had brought for the kids were too small; the real crepe de Chine nightgown for his wife too large...
Since World War II began, professional mourners have repeatedly hung crepe on the door of small business. But small business bullheadedly refused to die. Last week this stubborn survivor got a shot in the arm. Needle wielder was droopy-lidded, deadpan Robert Wood Johnson, boss of the Smaller War Plants Corp. The shot: a new plan for civilian production in small plants...
...great druggist died last week. A swatch of black crepe hung over the picture of little, round-faced Dr. J. Leon Lascoff in the Manhattan drugstore he founded in 1899. He was the dean of the old-fashioned U.S. pharmacists - the proud little group to whom a soda fountain and its attendant Comus' crew are anathema...
...recent weeks more crepe has been hung on the U.S. machine-tool industry than on all other war industries combined...
...denies that war tools will be any good for the dream cars, washing machines and refrigerators of the future, believes that his industry will be the indispensable base of a postwar consumers'-goods boom. And last week Joe Trecker delivered one solid piece of advice to his crepe-hanging colleagues: "The future of the machine-tool industry is no blacker than the individual abilities of its members will allow...