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...cinch it had been. His Esquire, launched in 1933-modeled on Apparel Arts with the addition of sexy cartoons and articles by big literary names such as Ernest Hemingway-was on the newsstands in December 1937 with its fattest issue ever-including 155 pages of ads. His Coronet, launched a year before (1936), was set to invade the profitable field occupied by Reader's Digest, and he was about to launch a newsmagazine to cut himself in on another field. Esquire, his big moneymaker, had become the darling of the barbershops and just hit a peak circulation...
...Home & Abroad. Both Stalin and Hitler use food to destroy internal opposition, reward accomplishment, punish failure, establish the class distinctions of their "new orders." In Germany the "warrior caste" of the armed forces gets the fattest ration cards, skilled and essential workmen the next. Down at the bottom come prisoners, the insane, the Jews. Ration cards giving the owner right to more food are used to give workmen incentives to seek promotion, to increase their output. Supplies are suddenly cut down (regardless of the amount stored) to scare the population into believing the situation serious, or extra rations are suddenly...
With their fattest year since 1930 digested, 4,500 U. S. retailers last week gathered in Manhattan to get a taste of things to come. It was the 30th annual convention of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, most potent of all retail groups. Last year its 5,700 member stores sold $4,500,000,000 worth of goods more than 15% of all U. S. retail sales. President Frank McConnell Mayfield's keynote was grim. Said he: ". . . the waving of flags and singing of God Bless America will not solve the problem. . . . The principal concern of retailing...
...steam, gas and Diesel engines, an endless variety of pumps, compressors, rock drills and turbines, Worthington must deliver before many defense construction jobs can start. Third-quarter profits were $465,000, v. $360,000 last year. With six months' unfilled orders on the books, 1940 will be its fattest year since...
...lumbering, leftish ex-newspaperman named Ferdinand Lundberg decided to give form to his favorite gripe: big, fat capitalists and their de facto control of our de jure Government. Under his microscope went 60 of the fattest with their families, their incomes, their politics, their philanthropies. He wrote an erudite bombshell of questionable accuracy titled America's 60 Families, watched his subjects squirm while Secretary Ickes and then Assistant Attorney General Jackson quoted it with gusto. Within less than a year the families were sprawled under more powerful microscopes as the Temporary National Economic Committee made a study of corporate...