Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First hosiery mill to close last week was Gotham Silk Hosiery Co.'s Courtland mill in Philadelphia. Its 600 employes would soon be lost in Philadelphia's defense boom. Quite different was the outlook in North Carolina, where 22,000 hosiery workers face unemployment within two weeks. In Burlington, N.C., for example, a shutdown would affect 6,000 workers, ultimately cut off almost all the town's income. Mill managers planned 1) to stretch silk operations with substitutes in welt and feet, and with a three-day week, 2) to pray for early arrival of fine rayon...
...another 30,000,000 citizens who are not on relief but who do not have much money to spend, the food outlook is not bright. Only help for them is to keep prices down; otherwise they too will become a charge on the Government. On the very day on which the first Nutrition Conference opened, the President signed the new crop-loan bill, which will tend to raise prices of flour, pork chops, ham, bacon, other vital foods...
...Southpaw Mort Waldstein's good days, the Varsity looks snappy, but on afternoons like Saturday, when he is having trouble, the outlook is far from bright. Although the Crimson only garnered five scattered hits, their fielding was good, with Jay Gleason still playing Gil Whittemore's spot at third, Red Scully in Captain Fred Keyes' position, and Burgy Ayres in right for Bill Parsons...
Despite this black outlook, there is a determination in the Blue camp to wind up the season successfully by repeating the 1940 triumph. Bob Owen will be out to conclude his college career with blue ribbons as he faces Pirnie in 100 and 220 yard dashes; running with him will be Talbott, and Rothschilds. In the hurdles, injury to Osborne may end the Blue supremacy, although sophomores Green and Sargent will be running for the Blues...
Said General Wesson last week: "About two months ago ... I expressed some concern about our ability to meet completion dates for these new (ordnance) plants. ... I would be most happy . . . if it were possible for me to say that this outlook has brightened. ... If anything, it has grown darker, due to large increases in naval and aircraft programs [which have] higher priorities. ... I am not decrying our priorities system. It is essential that we have such a system...