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...spite of this, retail prices rose about 1% in 1940's first half. Main retail advances: bread (1? a loaf in northern cities) and woolen and silk apparel. Offsetting this over-all rise, home furnishing prices fell 2½% (paced by a 10% to 15% decline in refrigerators...
...drive a good big Sherman Act investigation into. Last week, Arnold served notice on the food industry that the investigation was under way. First up for scrutiny were 18 "situations," ranging from fruits to fish. Sample complaints: that in some places bakers' associations kept prices a cent a loaf too high; that packers in one city upped prices an average of 5? a pound by fixing slaughtering quotas...
...Cheap food is cheaper, easier to find, in more places. Adequate lunch at a place with tablecloths: 75?. Prize food buy for the thrifty was at the new 5 and 10 Cent Restaurant (10? items: spaghetti, pork chops, beef stew, meat loaf). (Said a tough Manhattan moppet on opening day: "Five cents for meatballs! They should give us hamburgers!"). Hamburgers cost...
...into a one-man national musical movement (TIME, Feb. 5). Villa-Lobos wants to give Brazil a folk music. One day he gazed out of his office window in Rio de Janeiro. He gasped. "There," he exclaimed, "was my music, my inspiration. There was the Corcovado, the Sugar Loaf, waiting these millions of years for someone capable of reading and expressing the music of their unique lines. I had found the source of my new, truly Brazilian folklore, without needing to go to the people or to other composers...
...anchored the 440-yard relay team to victory almost immediately after finishing his 5:38.5 quarter-mile. It was an iron-man stunt reminiscent of Charlie Hutter's 100-220-440 feat against Yale in 1937. Curwen was under orders to loaf as much as possible in the first two events and in the final contest his teammates labored to hand him at least a two second margin over his opponent...