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...retailers, this was a mixed blessing. It forced them to reappraise their own inventory policies, do a little panic buying themselves. In Manhattan one day last week arrived 1,088 out-of-town buyers, largest number ever to register in a single day. Many had gone just to look around; they stayed to place even bigger orders than last year-not only for spring goods but also for winter replacements. Biggest orders: men's suits, women's dresses, rubber goods (including girdles & corsets), stockings, blankets, sheets. Biggest buyers: those from defense areas...
...year-old Publisher Hoyt managed in the last two years to overcome this lead is a story of smart publishing. He boosted his out-of-town circulation by bettering the Oregonian's coverage in small...
...check from the desk of J. E. Wyatt. It was returned to him from Mendota, Mo., 150 miles away. In Charlestown, N.H., a mail clerk who lost a jackknife figured he might possibly have dropped it into one of 14 outgoing mail sacks. He wrote to 14 out-of-town postmasters, got back 16 knives...
...dealers' galleries now scattered along Manhattan's 57th Street and elsewhere, 3) a barrel-topped terminal for Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey, 4) a health and recreation building with courts, rinks and swimming pools, 5) a large hotel especially designed for conventions of out-of-town industrialists, 6) a fashion center for wholesaling, distribution and display of the garment industry, 7) many-storied underground garages, wide sidewalks, rooftop restaurants, glass-enclosed subway entrances and combination sunken-garden and retail shopping areas...
...District of Columbia police department completed arrangements to borrow 65 detectives from other big cities (to discourage visits by out-of-town criminals...