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...want a brighter England," said Architect Tait. "I want to see gloom banished from the grey industrial areas. I want great simplicity in design, good proportion, more light, more color, more lakes and more fountains. . . . Needs and modern materials will dictate our architecture. It will have to be functional but it will not be ugly, cubist or arrogantly advanced...
...year 1940 opened and closed in gloom. Around Labor Day 1939, Business had begun to prepare for big orders. Assuming that World War II would resume where World War I had stopped, manufacturers started buying frantically from each other in order to be ready. The FRB production index headed straight up; then-when the export orders failed to materialize-it dived. So 1940 opened to the twinge of a familiar business headache: inventory trouble, just like stagnant...
Time was running fast last week. The quick winter days flashed by, grey, chill and wet; the disappointment, gloom and confusion of leaderless, floundering Washington had spread over the U. S. The country stirred uneasily. Eminent men made angry speeches. Little men lined up outside reopening factories. The headlines' phantasmagoria whirled on: strikes, battles, production bottlenecks, taxes, airplanes, fleet bases. These were the table talk of the last days of 1940-and desk talk, factory and farm talk...
...prevailing mood in Washington was gloom. Apprehensively the country read the Washington columnists, whose reports of U. S. defense preparations read last week like the opening chapters of so many ghost stories. "We are in a pause," gloomed Columnist Ray Clapper (Scripps-Howard). "Slump," wailed Columnist Dorothy Thompson (New York Herald Tribune), who printed reports that the President is in a "down" mood. Even Franklin Roosevelt's closest adherents questioned his two-week cruise; wondered how he dared leave. Washington seemed to be sinking back into the swamp whence it was reclaimed...
...Most significant of all, automobiles have put the gloom casters to shame. In spite of bad weather, Detroit had its best November ever, sold 400,000 cars to retail customers. One catch to this performance: although the 1941 model year began early, the early-season rush is still on. Also, many buyers have been frightened into premature turn-ins by the thought that the 1941 models may be the last for some time. Yet the automakers, just as scared of rationing as their customers, have been anxious to build year-end inventories up to the level...