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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smaller retail businesses, it is easier to find evidence of recession in Cambridge. During the past year, total sales volume dropped six per cent, and many a small merchant is feeling the pinch for the first time since the war. New out-of-town highway stores have joined with buyer resistance in cutting down business...
Loewy's first job for the Pennsylvania Railroad was designing a trash can. That was successful, so he went to work blueprinting a new locomotive. To find out what was wrong with old engines, Loewy rode them for thousands of miles, noting such things as the absence of a toilet for the crew (he installed one), and the fact that smoke sometimes obscured, the engineer's vision (he devised a vane to deflect it). He wound up designing not only new locomotives but whole new trains for Pennsylvania (Broadway Limited, "Spirit of St. Louis," The General, Liberty Limited...
...week, when Sutherland tried to write the orders for Kenney's first big show. Writes Kenney: "I told him that I was running the Air Force because I was the most competent airman in the Pacific and that, if that statement was not true, I recommended that he find somebody that was more competent. . . When Sutherland seemed to be getting a little antagonistic, I said, 'Let's go in the next room, see General MacArthur . . .' Sutherland immediately calmed down and rescinded the orders that I had objected...
Crooked Canyon. According to the Smith hypothesis, the South could not find peace; its guilt drove it to a collective persecution complex. "Beyond the mountains was the North: the Land of Dam-yankees, where live People Who Cause All of Our Trouble; and at the end of the North was Wall Street, that fabulous crooked canyon of evil winding endlessly through the Southern mind which is, like the dark race, secretly visited by those who talk loudest against...
...glimmer of an idea how men feel when their world is suddenly snuffed out, but he does make some good guesses about how they exist. The dynamos run down, the reservoirs run dry, the cigarettes go flat and the canned goods lose their flavor, yet The Tribe cannot find the patience or the seed to keep a garden, nor the wit to catch a cow. The children scarcely learn to read, and soon begin to think of the vanished Americans as a race of gods...