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...range of styles, colors and materials was wide. But prices were higher (shoes, hats, suits were up as much as 10% over 1946). And sales were slipping. Average dollar volume in Manhattan's apparel stores was off only about 1%. Yet this was enough to worry many a merchant with high inventory because it meant that unit sales were considerably under last year's. Said a salesgirl in high-hatted Hattie Carnegie's: "A woman who bought six hats last year will buy only four this year." (Hattie Carnegie's "popular" price...
...independent and five A.F.L. maritime unions, meeting in Washington, roundly rejected "Communists as traitors to the nation and a detriment to the solid permanency of a United States merchant marine...
Circumstances tending to discount the suicide theory--the fact that Harmon was found in a river--were discounted by police. "A psychological call to the water," since the deceased had been an officer in the merchant marine and had frequently spokes about reentering, was suspected by Brickley...
First admitted in August 1943, Harmon enlisted in the Merchant Marine and served until the spring of 1946. He spent the summer on his family farm at Churchville, and began College last fall...
Friends of Harmon reported, however, that he had talked about returning to the merchant service, where he left with the rank of ensign. He had previously renounced his ambitions in the direction of medicine...