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...World War II. The bureau keeps a file of 120,000 companies which it uses as a sample for measuring overall employment. During, and after, the war BLS failed to adjust its totals for new industries or industries that had declined in importance. Future estimates, hopes BLS, will be good and true...
...Good for Everyone. On the other hand, many U.S. exporters of machine tools, autos and farm equipment, feared that cheaper sterling would cut deeply into their markets in South America and overseas. On the whole, Harvard's Economist Sumner H. Slichter thought devaluation would benefit the U.S. economy. Said he: "American business concerns have been reluctant to go after business by cutting prices . . . Foreign goods at lower prices will stimulate at least a small amount of price-cutting in the U.S. . . . [And] any success of other countries in selling to the U.S. will simply increase their demand for American...
Timing (not always so good) has been only one of the minor specialties of moonfaced, meteor-paced Jerry Wald in his eight years as the workhorse producer of the Warner lot. Last week, while the average producer managed to look busy on his year's quota of one or two pictures, Mass-Producer Jerry Wald had five more films finished, and three about ready to start shooting. It was not an unusual week for Hollywood's busiest moviemaker. Last year he turned out nine pictures, including the laureled Johnny Belinda, and got enough quality into the quantity...
...dropsy, jailed as often as not on a recurring charge of embezzlement, harried with an incredible series of family troubles. He was at the bitter end of a bitter life, yet shortly after Don Quixote was done he wrote sweetly: "Goodbye to thanks, goodbye to compliments, goodbye to good friends. For I am dying." Miguel de Cervantes died on April 23, 1616, the same day as William Shakespeare...
...Translator. The man who has at last brought Cervantes' masterpiece to life in English spent 17 years directly on the job and a lifetime indirectly preparing for it. Samuel Putnam began translating in Latin class at Hoopeston, Ill. High School, was so good at it that he won a Latin scholarship to the University of Chicago. Ill health kept him from earning a degree but not from trying his writing hand at newspaper work...