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Index of this boom were the annual sales figures announced last week by Manhattan's largest (and newest) art dealer, Gimbel Brothers Department Store. Gimbels' sales-$5,255,000-more than doubled last year's. Fifty-Seventh Street's largest art auctioneers, swank Parke-Bernet Galleries,* ran second with $4,007,823.35, an increase of 10%. Smaller dealers reported similar increases. What share had been bought by refugees could not be positively figured, for Manhattan's art impresarios are as secretive about their clients as doctors about their patients. But most of them agreed that...
Biggest buyers were industrial plants, utilities, large owners of urban properties, big mercantile establishments. Gimbel Bros, and its affiliated stores went in for $64 million coverage; Consolidated Edison for $300 million; A.T. & T., $1.4 billion...
...bargain was offered in Manhattan: William Randolph Hearst's 12th-Century Spanish monastery, tastefully packaged in 10,400 crates, ready for delivery, at $19,000. Gimbel Brothers knocked it down from $50,000, for a quick sale. It cost the Lord of San Simeon more than $500,000 to get it here from Spain...
...around until after Pearl Harbor, when it was finally pulverized into thermite for millions of incendiary bombs, some of which probably smashed down on Essen and Emden last week. At the same time that the old aluminum was at last coming to an honorable end, Manhattan's smart Gimbel Brothers' store was advertising at cut prices a trainload of brand-new aluminum pots & pans still available from pre-war stocks...
...members in 250 cities met with local press and radio editors, asked them please, when the ruling came out, for once not to treat women's fashions as merely funny. The Association then supplied radio stations and newspapers with reassuring fashion advice from leading U.S. clothes designers: Sophie Gimbel, Clare Potter, Nettie Rosenstein and others...