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...important commentator last week could find in the fabric of U. S. industry any moth hole big enough to justify a major stock slump. Signs for optimists included...
Last week a flashy Manhattan haberdasher, Marty Walker, had the "honor and distinction" of advertising that his was "the first concern in the entire world privileged to present MEN'S HEAVY-WEIGHT*OVERCOATS of the world's most precious fabric, 100% PURE STROOCK VICUÑA CLOTH." Broadway crowds stopped to gape at the model coat which 60 vicuñas died to make. One man actually ordered a coat. Price...
...hesitates a moment wondering whether to take a chance and fly right in. Other people have done it, why shouldn't I, thinks Vag. So he plunges his plane into the darkness, and is suddenly surrounded by hail, sleet, and rain, coming from all directions. In a second the fabric on the wings is torn off. He and his ship hurtle towards the earth...
...lost four inches and was slowly shrinking back to boyhood height. So brittle had his bones become that once when he bent to pick up a heavy weight he heard his spine crack. To bolster up his telescoped vertebrae doctors had tried three different leather corsets, three fabric corsets with iron stays, as well as heavy doses of Vitamin D, calcium, and ground eggshells. Dr. Meulengracht found that the patient had always had sufficient calcium in his diet, but that apparently little of it had been absorbed for many years. No textbook diagnosis explained his case...
What he said to Hitler and Benes was about what any U. S. President would have found it safe to say at such a juncture. He spoke of the "incalculable" consequences of rupturing the "fabric of peace." He disavowed for the U. S. any "mesh of hatred." He reminded his addressees of the Kellogg-Briand anti-war pact, etc. Said he: "The supreme desire of the American people is to live in peace. But in the event of a general war they face the fact that no nation can escape some measure of the consequences of such a world catastrophe...