Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bantam Barnum." Billy Rose's skyrocket career as a showman began with a miserable fizzle called Corned Beef & Roses. Desperately, he rewrote it, renamed it Sweet & Low. Though it had Fanny Brice in some of the original Baby Snooks routines (which Billy wrote), it thudded again. Billy rewrote the show a second time, renamed it Crazy Quilt, and took it on the road. Billed as "A Saturnalia of Wanton Rhythm Featuring Exotic Divertissements," Crazy Quilt played to packed houses at almost every stop. In nine months, Rose recouped his $75,000 outlay and made $240,000 clear profit...
...Little, Too Few. There are only 4,000 psychiatrists in the U.S. to help unstrung people out of their mental muddles. Only 4% of the current medical-training curriculum is devoted to psychiatry. Spending on mental disease is comparatively low: according to A.P.A., U.S. citizens lay out $100 per case per year for polio research v. a measly 25? per case for psychoneurosis...
...billion at the end of March, were still rising. In short, current production in many industries was higher than current demand. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that factory employment had dropped by nearly 140,000 between mid-March and mid-April, the first decline since the reconversion low of 15 months ago. Some of this was "seasonal...
...Chairman Norris and Morris Pendleton, president of Los Angeles Plomb Tool Co., went to Washington, buttonholed Congressmen, talked to RFC officials, pleaded the case of Henry Kaiser. Henry lay low. So did the RFC. The timing could scarcely have been worse. The RFC itself is fighting for its life and is in no position to agree to Kaiser's proposal, even if it wanted to. Nevertheless, there was a chance that Kaiser would eventually work out a deal for Fontana if only because the probable alternatives looked worse to the West's politicians. If Kaiser lost Fontana...
...Navion production had lagged because of delays in engine deliveries. When the planes finally came out, North American had no adequate sales force to sell them in the face of the light-plane slump. And the price of $7,750 was so far below cost-at the low production rate-that it became a wry joke. Once, when a prospect told Dutch that he would buy a Navion if he could "get it at cost," Dutch snapped back: "Wonderful. Make out your check...