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...extremes of the earning gamut were two companies that offered plenty of grist for the mills of economic moralists. American Woolen Co., with no big labor, material or reconversion problems, was a startling example of what an economically uninhibited company could do. In the third quarter of 1946, its profits soared to $5,375,000 some 393% over last year's comparable net. So far this year, on common stock selling at only $50 a share, earnings have been a phenomenal...
...recall from the more leisurely days of thumbing through Sears Roebuck catalogues that women seemed to be wearing daring and glamorous undercostumes during that unregimented postwar era. There were gay primary colors and the whole gamut of pastels. There were novel shapes and patterns. Lace had a place; there were ruffles and embroidery. But that was before...
...excited rage. In June 1914 a little magazine called BLAST appeared (long ahead of ¥2) in London, saying: "BLAST years 1837 to 1900; curse abysmal inexcusable middle class . . . BLAST their weeping whiskers. . . ." This tone continued for 30-odd years to reverberate at one extreme of the little magazine gamut. But the violence was also disciplined, in its way. In the U.S. it found one outlet in a literary war for imagism, a simple doctrine requiring poetry to be exact rather than mushy. The new little magazine Poetry, founded in 1912, fought to make verse exact as well as free...
...Love in the Snow," Boston's latest musical romance, draws brazenly on a wide variety of sources, and imitates many more. It runs the gamut from Victor Herbert through Gilbert and Sullivan and Guiseppi Verdi, and ends on a climactic rendition of "Vesti La Giubba." The surprising thing is that the sum total is not chaos, but a lively and tuneful evening's entertainment. Though strongly reminiscent of past musical hits, and in part admitted cribbing, Ralph Benatzky's score is pleasant and melodious. It has to be, to compensate for uninspired lyrics and a book exceeding even the broad...
...days the United Nations turned a blueprint into a going concern. Fifty-one nations, spanning the gamut of race, color, language and tradition, had to concur. They did-with ultimate unanimity. How long and with what travail would it have taken Congress to complete a comparable task...