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...price increases to coax the quick production of more consumers' goods, chiefly low-priced articles. Shoe manufacturers were granted a wholesale price boost of 42%, cheap furniture makers 7-13%, radio makers 10-15%, makers of lawn mowers 17%. On some cotton goods such as bedspreads and table linen, price boosts ran from as much as 20% to 40%. Before long, OPA expects to give sizable price increases also to makers of electrical appliances and household articles...
...most Nürnbergers were simply concerned with finding food and shelter and warmth in the soggy, smelly ruins of their city. Enviously they looked at the Grand Hotel (requisitioned for the trial staff) which was well heated, served plenty of food on fabulously clean linen, and had a bar, dancing, and a floor show...
Having read your letter published today [TIME, Nov. 12] to us subscribers, I certainly do want to join you in every good wish to Jim Linen in his new job. I also want to extend congratulations to TIME for regaining the services of one of the ablest men I have ever known-and one of the nicest...
Next week James Linen, back home in Greenwich, Connecticut with his wife and four children, takes on his biggest publishing job yet. I know you join with all of us in wishing him well...
...more than a thousand years the legend of Tristan and Iseult has been one of the world's best-loved love stories. Medieval ladies embroidered scenes from the tale on fine linen and silk; medieval craftsmen enshrined the lovers on gold and ivory and wood. Tristan and Iseult were also favored by scores of poets, including Chaucer, Matthew Arnold, Swinburne, Tennyson, Hardy, Edwin Arlington Robinson and by Composer Richard Wagner, who built the legend into an opera...