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Last month Beirut gossip mills had new grist. The Amazer, they said, had asked for a U.S. visa. His destination: California, to attend a spiritualist convention...
...with the result that rate making has become a much more scientific and a much less time consuming process in the hands of regulatory commissions. Viewed in the light of the courts' past experience with complicated industrial matters, the currently pressing portal-to-portal pay suits appear to be grist for arbitrating bodies or labor-management conferences rather than material or judicial decision...
...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...
Respectable Woman. To keep abreast of the woeful tide, Mrs. Gilmer is up at 7 a.m. With a stenographer and her companion-secretary, she zips through her daily grist with a sharp eye out for the "angle" that will cue a sermonette. Every afternoon her chauffeur drives her through Audubon Park and back to the swank Prytania Street apartment. Her stock wisecrack, when showing guests her fine Louis XIV bed: "I'll bet I'm the only respectable woman who ever slept...
...Matthews, again: (quoting Wednesday afternoon's headlines) "Truman Says We Must Eat Less." "State of the Union's" grist is topicality...