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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prepared for almost everything, Miss Burbank dutifully sewed on the button. She wants it known, however, that her powers are not unlimited, that she cannot conjure up hotel rooms, orchestra seats at the theater, etc. Lately, her card index file of New York City, which includes the subhead "Girls with Problems," has come to the attention of one of the world's older and one of its newer institutions. Good old Thomas Cook & Son, travel agents extraordinary, have examined it as a prelude to setting up a similar guide to London, and the United Nations has already adopted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 9, 1946 | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...opened at 187¾, down an additional 5¼ points. Nervous motor and steel stocks dropped too; others sagged one to eight points. Soon the market was caught in the heaviest selling and the deepest break in industrial averages since late July (TIME, Aug. 5). The Dow-Jones index plummeted through 200 (the reputed resistance point of this market) and came to rest at 196.66. Over a million and a half shares had been traded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brake on the Market | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...been caused by: 1) the U.S. ultimatum to Tito, 2) Chrysler's announced shutdown, 3) "discouraging" second-quarter earnings. Moreover, A. T. & T., being a pivotal stock with one of the highest quotations on the market, had a disproportionate effect on the Dow-Jones index. Heavy trading in A.T. & T. had carried the whole industrial index below the market's resistance point, scared holders of other stocks into selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brake on the Market | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...three large rooms in Widener, in countless library shelves, in acres of show cases, and even on the restful expanses of many chairs, William Van Lennep, Curator of the College Library theatre collection, and his assistants attempt to index and catalogue Harvard's ever-growing and world famous collection of theatrical mementoes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ghosts of Held, Lind Stalk Widener In Third-Floor Theatre Collections | 8/20/1946 | See Source »

Fuel-and-light costs and rents-two of the six basic items in the index-stayed put in June; both food and clothing went up two points, miscellaneous items a point and a half, home furnishings and services three points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Price Rise | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

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