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...sales grow by approximately 10%. Auto manufacturers sold a record 10,800,000 cars, including imports, and builders began construction of an alltime high 2,386,000 houses and apartments, which in turn boosted sales of TV sets, refrigerators, chairs, draperies and other home furnishings. One telling little indicator: pawnshop proprietors observed fewer people swapping their worldly goods for cold cash, and more of them redeeming items...
Take Mickey Feldstein's Foolproof Pawnshop Index. Feldstein keeps a close watch on the percentage of pawned items that are eventually redeemed at his Lincoln Loan Bank & Jewelers in Chicago. In 1966, when the economy was throbbing, Feldstein's redemption rate was 90%. In December of 1970, the Commerce Department's average of twelve leading indicators was pointing up unmistakably, signaling a big rebound in business. Feldstein knew better; his redemption rate the month before was only 60%, and the Commerce Department rebound never came. Today Feldstein sees good times ahead. His redemption rate is a brisk...
...from Columbia to the outskirts of Harlem-a bad sense of direction took me from there to the nearest subway, at 125th and Lenox. I watched my camera dangle over the shoulder of the green T-shirt like a panfish headed for the table, or more precisely, the pawnshop. We'd been through University Hall together...
...Nevertheless the rare actions of people other than the principals illuminate the situation of the principals without seeming to be bits of business Griffith picked to reveal the central relation of the film. After Cortez has bought his wife-to-be a cup and saucer they stand outside a pawnshop, facing the camera, admiring the cup. A woman comes up to them, takes a look at it, and passes off to one side. We never see her face: her action is ambiguous, it is not expressly directed to the characters we know. But her action brings out their wedding-purchase...
Electric Slippers. Seki began his career by making a telescope from an old magnifying glass and a lens he found in his father's pawnshop. He was stunned by the sight of craters when he first turned his telescope on the moon, and has been star-struck ever since. Beginning his observations in 1950, he patiently peered through a variety of homemade telescopes for eleven years without finding anything new. He was on the verge of surrendering and concentrating on his $150-per-month job as guitar instructor when he spotted his first new comet in the constellation...