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...Sparkes reports that manufacturers expect all these drawbacks to be overcome by technological improvement and mass production after the war. Some hope to produce a good-sized freezer for less than $200. New refrigerants, better insulation materials, drawer-type construction will make freezers more efficient...
Right or Wrong. Many a Wall Streeter was quick to point out that this was not the whole picture. They argued that U.S. corporations are approaching a managerial crisis. In the main, they have become too big for one-man ownership or operation. They must shop outside for top-drawer talent, then offer a substantial inducement for that talent to stay put. With sky-high taxes, sky-high salaries alone are no such inducement. The best inducement is to give top men a chance to build up what Wall Street calls "an adequate capital position," i.e., make more money...
Comedy was just once out of the top drawer (The Voice of the Turtle), just once out of the second drawer (Over 21). Otherwise it was mostly out of a musty old trunk in the attic. There was not one really good farce, fantasy, thriller. Musicals made the season's biggest splash, but their finest sounds were familiar ones: the brilliant Bizet music in the all-Negro Carmen Jones, the lovely Lehar waltzes of The Merry Widow. Possibly barring One Touch of Venus, musicomedy failed to produce a single decent score, and nowhere produced even a halfway decent book...
...might puzzle: containing traces of unquestionably valuable metal, with delicate markings and crystal patterns of great beauty and rarity, but of as little appreciable utility as most meteorites. Virginia Woolf wrote short stories all her life, sketching them out in very rough form and putting them away in a drawer to mellow. Or she wrote them to rest her mind while she was writing her novels. Published last week was a posthumous collection of 18, selected by her husband, Leonard Woolf. The book will please collectors...
...more than half of the chewing gum in the world, was able to keep operating profits up to $22,900,000 last year, 7% above 1942, and even to squeeze out a small increase in net income (to $6,800,000). Besides that, Phil Wrigley collected a fine file-drawer full of testimonials on what gum does to increase efficiency...