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...only an eddy in the economic storm now assaulting stock prices. Judged by indices, this storm last week was blowing as hard as ever. Steel production slumped another two points to 27.5% of capacity. Lumber, power and cement output dwindled. Freight cars were at the year's emptiest. Furniture sales were 30% less than last year. But indices, being statistical compilations of past events, are always a bit behind the times. More intangible but more up-to-date indications last week seemed to point in the other direction. The New York stockmarket completed ten days of solid gain with...
...young painter was a burly bachelor with a gay, stubborn face, a sociable manner. One of his first jobs was The Anatomy Lesson, for Dr. Tulp, an impressively theatrical work. He promptly became Amsterdam's most popular and richest painter. His portraits of that time were, comparatively, the emptiest he ever did. He spent money hand over fist, on tapes tries and brocades, on good living and on the paintings of his contemporaries. He frequently opened the bidding with a price three times what any Dutch burgher ever paid for a picture, to "raise the prices for paintings...
Scarcely a peep of protest came from the unions. Most of their members were now gladly working for whatever they could get, wherever they could get it. With so many jobless a strike, they realized, would be the emptiest of empty gestures...
...Maine State Prison was 16% below capacity, the "emptiest...
...When we Get in With Nice People" is the vegetative tragedy of a couple who progressed from Greenwich Village to Park Avenue without discovering that "nice" is the emptiest word in the English language...