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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upturn in the output of durable goods had sent its index of industrial production up three points to a new peacetime record of 195. Although the Bureau of Labor Statistics found "unexpected declines" in employment in consumer goods industries, total non-farm employment had hit a record 46 million in October, 1,200,000 higher than a year...
...down to cost; after another week he cuts it to half the cost (but seldom has to). Last year his two Ohrbach's, Inc. stores - on Manhattan's shrill 14th Street, and in Newark, N.J. - made a handsome profit of $1,500,000 on close to $40 million in sales...
...most optimistic post-war forecasts . . . Today there are 47 stations . . . serving 22 states ... At the end of 1949, tne outlook is for 123 stations in 35 states [reaching] 51% of the population . . . It is estimated that 1,600,000 new television receivers will be added to the million already in operation...
...Edward L. Doheny, widow of one of the principals in the Teapot Dome oil scandal of the 20s, agreed to sell her one-fourth interest in California's Coalinga Nose, Pleasant Valley and Guijarral Hills oilfields. Price: $43 million. Buyer: Tide Water Associated...
Designer Geddes was so convincing that Schine last week announced plans to spend upwards of $10 million, under Geddes' direction, doing over the hotel and making it more than double its present size. Items: spacious (25-by-21-ft.) rooms with two baths and a balcony, a roof swimming pool with a beach of washable rubber-composition sand. On the six city blocks of empty land that surround the present building, Geddes and Architect Paul Williams, who is collaborating on the plan, will build 500 bungalows connected by a tunnel system to the hotel room service...