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...Emily Hahn, rash, black-haired, late-jazz-age authoress (Seductio ad Absurdum) who became Shanghai's favorite ex-New Yorker, deplored the lack of Occidental gossip. Back in the U.S. (via the Gripsholm) for the first time in nine years, the onetime "China Coast Correspondent" of The New Yorker sighed for the Oriental candor she had left behind: "When I talk to my friends, on the phone say, about some man who divorced his wife to run off with her daughter by a former marriage, they say: 'sh-sh, you're back in New York, you know...
...Department's Business Structure & Operations Unit, said the average small retailer "can't realize what lies ahead, since most of them have fairly satisfactory supplies on hand, but replacement difficulties will be constantly greater from now on." All this gloom got on the nerves of urbane Lew Hahn, general manager of National Retail Dry Goods Association and a patron saint of retailing. Said he indignantly: "The smaller merchant would like to know how to keep alive rather than how to have a fancy death...
...local daily newspaper. I got the Deutscher Beobachter, with a curt 'Bitte.' Near by, three American karakul-pelt buyers were deep in wartime prices. They spoke English. Everyone else in the room spoke German. On the wall a German poster announced a UFA film, Wenn der Hahn kräht. All around were pictures of Germany...
...provide a wholesale rollback is hardest on the patriotic merchant who tried to keep the lid on his prices (by averaging his costs), while the one who jumped his prices as fast as his costs rose is rewarded. National Retail Dry Goods Association's General Manager Lew Hahn gulped down his disappointment, promised that his 6,000 members "will do their best." But Lew Hahn and his colleagues foresaw plenty of other horrors...
...allowances, discounts, etc., not only for OPA itself but for carping customers. This is an expensive nuisance to large retailers. But to the hundreds of thousands of small grocers, general merchants, etc., who keep records in an aboriginal way if at all, the clerical problem is almost hopeless. Lew Hahn thought that a lot of small fry would be put out of business if the recording provisions were strictly enforced...