Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smart as modern man. If he were living today, he could easily become a good mechanic or a bishop. Much of what passes for intelligence in our present civilization is simply imitation. The so-called educated man of whom our generation is so proud, only repeats in parrot fashion the knowledge inherited from the past, is lacking in the intellectual audacity necessary for true progress. The big-brained animal has created an artificial material environment and moral code for himself, has not developed sufficient brainpower to use his creation wisely...
...large course with students of all degrees of ability enrolled in it, and (2) that it deals with subjects which are far from satisfactorily solved and which are difficult even for advanced students of economics. Corrolary: Economics 3 is conducted in a very slow and deliberate fashion; it tends toward oversimplification; and the lectures remind one of one's preparatory school days in their careful topical organization and their constant repetition...
...pound against 12½? before government control. For his work he received the U. S. Distinguished Service Medal, awards from Italy, France, Belgium. He likes to recall that when the corset-makers came and begged for steel he refused their plea, thus helped change the line of fashion. In 1919 he organized Vanadium Corp. of America and Replogle Steel Co. the latter being succeeded three years ago by Warren Foundry & Pipe Corp. Lately, however, he has been in practical retirement although he is a special partner of Harris, Upham & Co. But last week the name Replogle again figured...
...casket business is no static affair. A flux of styles from decade to decade keeps things moving. The height of current fashion is National's Cast Bronze Sarcophagus, a 1,400-lb., $16,000, silk-lined affair. From 1910 to 1920 the leader was a fancy mahogany casket selling at around $3,500. A trend toward colors is likewise setting in. Cream, champagne, grey, pink, green, and rainbow-tinted caskets are popular now. Recently an actress was buried in a bright orchid colored casket lined in satin ruffles; officials of a smaller western company still talk...
This year it has been decided that Black shall be even more fashionable than last, that all the autumn colors shall be dark. The economic wisdom of this decision is easy to see. Last year's opalescent pinks & blues?and 1929's brown and 1928's beige & red?odd-lots of which remain in many a manufacturer's inventory (Amalgamated last week had $1,150,000 in inventories), can readily be redyed and sold so long as the new color is darker than before, or Black. Manufacturers may escape the red of deficits through the black of fashion...