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Brothels are taboo in Miami Beach because 1) they are bad for the home trade, and 2) there are plenty just across the bay in Miami. Gambling flourished until 1936. Then Levi & Co. concluded that gambling racketeers were also bad for business, banged down the lid on everything except one legalized dog-track (which pays the city $50 a day during the season...
...assistant. Though Manhattan critics admitted that Leinsdorf was not bad for a beginner they com plained that the Met was no place for a beginner. There were rumors that the Met's stars liked Mr. Leinsdorf no better than the critics did. The pot simmered. Last week the lid blew...
...salary-1,000 kroner (about $200) a year. While he was still singing baritone roles at the Royal Opera, the eminent, U. S.-born vocal expert, Mme Charles Cahier, heard him, and wrote the director of the opera that Melchior was really no baritone but a tenor with the lid on. After he had practiced lifting the lid, he was allowed to sing his first tenor role: Tannhäuser...
...letter day when the U. S. State Department takes off its kid gloves for handling the English Foreign Office. Last Saturday Mr. Hull put them in his glove box, and slammed the lid. He let it be known that he didn't like English search of U. S. mail going to neutral countries, and furthermore, he didn't like the excuses she offered for it. It is a complicated situation, but the essence of it is that though England has agreed in the past not to make such a search, she feels that her assumed right to look for contraband...
...lid finally came off last week: 22,500,000 lbs. of Australian wool made available to the U. S. American buyers promptly bought 4,800,000 lbs. for $2,500,000 at prices about those for equivalent grades in the U. S. market. Purchases would have been larger but for the following factors: the buying season was at year's low ebb; the buying machinery creaked; since the beginning of war U. S. mills had tapped South American and South African markets for about 50,000,000 lbs. Then the purchasers had a fresh worry: transportation. Because...