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...million business, with a 25% increase predicted for 1954, and its products are America's most popular gadgets. Old companies in the field have suddenly come to life, dozens of new ones have popped up. Such firms as the Rockwell Mfg. Co., DeWalt Inc. and Black & Decker Mfg. Co. have brought out whole lines of better, easier-to-use tools. Black & Decker alone has 150 models, now does a $35,648,000 business annually v. $5,346,000 in 1939. Other firms, such as Skil Corp., Shopmaster, Magma Engineering Co. (TIME, March 29), have brought out portable and stationary...
Painter John Decker may score in Fowler's book for his good cooking, but on the day I visited his studio he had an open can of some foodstuff . . . the blue and white label read "Fix FOR HUMAN USE." It was issued by the WPA. The dark walls of Decker's depressing menage were covered with "brown-sauce" paintings-one of which was Queen Victoria with a W. C. Fields head [see cut]. Another, after Da Vinci, had Fanny Brice's face...
...Decker dispensed with me by saying,"John Barrymore left less than a minute ago. He was sitting right there," and pointed to a still-warm chair. I coveted the chair and sat on it in a feminine trance...
Whatever Sadakichi was when he began, by the late '30s and early '40s he was a prince of moochers and a court jester to an aging band of once rollicking Hollywood musketeers who met irregularly in the studio of West Coast Painter John Decker. Barrymore. Fields, Decker and Sadakichi each had one foot in the grave and one hand on the bottle. In the guise of Sadakichi's biographer. Fowler drops many a footnote to their bibulous, gay-gallant last stand in his sprightly Minutes of the Last Meeting...
...damage done to crops and farm land by insects, even in the bug-conscious U.S., is still immense. Said Decker: "Each year in the United States [insects] destroy crops, livestock and farm products equivalent to the entire agricultural output of the New England states, plus New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania...