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Fuller Shelves. Many retailers had already cleaned up their inventories too thoroughly. Last week they were busily restocking. After ten months of successive decline, U.S. retail inventories had jumped a tidy $500 million in September. There was still a tremendous amount of pent-up buying power. Disposable income had risen 4.8% in 1949's first half over the same period last year, to an annual rate of $194.6 billion, and personal savings had almost doubled...
...cameramen have carefully perceived things which Hollywood has only squinted at. They have caught the quick flash of sunlight off the front fender of a car. They have watched a pent-up ball of twine roll excitedly along a curbstone. They have found the texture of a masonry wall, and the quiet beauty of a row of tenements slanting downhill into the afternoon...
Patton before a race. The split second the gun goes off, all this pent-up emotion explodes...
...steel industry loosed a pent-up sigh. "I guess we're all relieved," said a U.S. Steel executive, "that the President took the easy way out. If he put controls on now, it would be as hard for the Government to administer as it would be for us to carry out. I think he got pretty good advice, for once...
...least gaining weight. The fifth quarterly issue went to 8,000 buyers, a gain of 3,000 from the first. To win them (at $3.50 a year), Spectator had turned an appraising gaze on Western writers, from Saroyan to Steinbeck. It had given two score pent-up regional intellectuals an outlet, and had ranged beyond the Pacific horizon to China (Lawrence Sears) and London (C. S. Forester...