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...Bologna, fat, flush Tenor Beniamino Gigli found he had won the weekly Italian national lottery. He promptly split the 11,000 lire ($555.50) prize among a friend and the three waiters whose shield numbers he had played...
...last week, most of the complaining had been done by labor. Its statisticians do not like the comparative production, employment and payroll figures for the first half of 1940. Production, as measured by the Federal Reserve Board index, was back up to 96% of the flush first half of 1937; but employment had recovered to only 92% of the first half of 1937, and payrolls (reflecting skilled trades' overtime more than higher wages) to only 93%. One answer to this is the greater security labor now enjoys on the down side, as shown in the catastrophic first half...
...kibitzers peeking at a disgruntled poker-player's four flush" would be an appropriate title for the ornamental keystones over the Cambridge Fire Station doorways--seen from a distance. At close range though, the figures turn out to be the driver of a fire engine with two mates grimly holding on behind. And this Janus-like duality in the stone heroes' appearance can also be found in a real smoke-eater's life...
...established their old leadership over the light "paper" steels (mainly sheets & strip) used in consumer goods. The American Iron & Steel Institute reported that in June nearly 60% of shipments was accounted for by "heavy" steels, against 56.5% averaged in 1940's first half, 57% in 1937's flush first half. Additional demand for heavy steel was in the offing last week...
...Hooton, the worries & woes of picture-making with Walter Wanger, the business of editing fashion magazines with her mother, Mrs. Edna Woolman Chase, editor of Vogue. She is fond of titillating her listeners with attacks on too too noble women, descriptions of summer romances gone sour because "in the flush of the rush he may have neglected to tell you of his wife...