Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, flame-haired young Claudia Cassidy grubbed away writing a music-and-theater column for the Chicago Journal of Commerce. Her pay was low but her spirit high: steadily and surely Miss Cassidy became known to an ever wider public as the best music critic in Chicago. Her two 18-carat assets: 1) a shrewd sense of musical values, 2) a gift of writing pointed criticism engagingly. Examples: (after Galli-Curci's ill-fated attempt at a comeback) "Instead of cream velvet jeweled with coloratura splendor there is an unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading...
Biggest-and still unsolved-problem is labor. Many department-store clerks are young, low-paid and itching to get into war work (or are playing hide & seek with the draft board). Complained one Manhattan storekeeper: "We are using every means to secure additional help, but with little success. . . . It is like getting stabbed in the back to watch business walk out the door simply because it is not possible to get sufficient salespeople...
...against $630,000 a year ago. And the Midwest's Twin City Rapid Transit Co. is making money so fast (six months' profit: $373,000 v. $126,000) that its preferred stock last week soared 24 points to 73, more than three times this year's low...
...exchanges have a tremendous advantage over private business-no overhead for store premises, plenty of low-cost soldier help, no labor problems, no advertising costs, no taxes. Without headaches of civilian business, profits are easy to figure. The rule is that they must be not less than 5% nor more than...
...most often compared to an oldtime general store, but it is more than that. A typical exchange has a bar serving low alcoholic beer (it may not be intoxicating), juke boxes, a shooting range, a soda fountain where a soldier can buy a lunch topped off by a triple-dip ice-cream soda. Usually there are also a barbershop, cobbler's shop, a tailor to make alterations in issue clothing for the carefully dressed soldier. Last week the Exchange Service added a new feature: officer's uniforms that a new second lieutenant can buy within the range...