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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week saw some signs of it. In the first six months of 1948, said the Department's monthly Survey of Current Business, "the rate of advance was probably the slowest for any six-months period since the postwar up trend began, with fewer industries reporting gains in output and more reporting downward adjustments...
...half a dozen run-down blocks lie many of the country's biggest and oldest cotton textile houses and the starchy Merchants and Arkwright clubs for Worth Street. Worth Street firms sold more than $2 billion worth of cotton cloth and yarns in 1947-90% of the output of all U.S. mills...
Last January his Lee Skirt Co. was turning out women's and misses' skirts at a good clip of 400 dozen a week. By last week, Lee Skirt had upped production more than 200%-1,250 dozen a week. U.S. department stores were taking the entire output. Retailing mostly at $1.99 and $2.95, the company's all-wool and rayon skirts are a bargain that few competitors can approach...
Back in 1939, unable to sell their higher-priced ($15.75 a dozen and up) output of 100 dozen a week, they desperately turned to making a skirt that would retail for $1. A flood of orders, amounting to 700 dozen on one peak day, showed what could be done on high-volume output with low profit per unit...
Return of the Bad Men (RKO Radio] has enough bad men in the cast to stock a year's output of westerns. It includes such semi-legendary desperadoes as Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Doolin, Wild Bill Yeager, The Arkansas Kid, Cole, Jim & John Younger, Emmett, Bob & Grat Dalton, and the Sundance Kid. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a case of too many crooks: most of these villains, though fairly well cast and reasonably picturesque, merely get in the way of each other's villainy...