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...Wild East. Siberia stayed underpopulated so long because newcomers recoiled from the first experience of its immensity and climate: January temperatures plummet to 100° below, while August temperatures soar to 120° above. Nature shaped the land with a grim hand. In prehistoric times, Siberia was a vast ocean, and its topography still resembles that of a shallow sea bottom, raised at the edges by a saucer-rim of mountains, with few barriers against wind or sun. The flat landscape is banded by four distinct regions-the icy northern shelf of the tundra, where nothing grows except moss, lichen...
Rallying to the cry that property values will plummet, Matt heads a neighborhood group to buy the house and keep it out of the Negro's hands. Success proves bitter. Far from being a faceless figure of dread, the would-be purchaser turns out to be Lamar Winter, a gifted commercial artist and Matt's business teammate and friend for seven years. In a tormented about-face, and with the aid of an equally conscience-stricken Jewish lawyer confederate, Matt secretly sells Lamar the house...
...pictures. All the world is willing to employ him at ?1,000 a picture, yet he never has a farthing!" The 29 ladies and gentlemen who graced the walls of the Worcester Museum last week gave their own explanation of why Lawrence's reputation could soar and then plummet, but could never be forgotten...
...tightly woven worsteds in 1960 will grab 37% of the boys' suit market, 48% of the student trade. Hop-sackings, a coarse, basket-weave pattern of cotton, linen, rayon or wool, will make up nearly one-fourth of both boys' and students' suits. Fading flannel will plummet to 21% of the junior market, a mere 14% of the undergraduate trade. Best explanation for flannel's worsting by worsted, from a buyer in New York's Old School Tie haberdashery. Brooks Brothers: worsteds weigh less, wrinkle less, wear longer-and now are being made in flannel...
...quickly slipped into the black. But consumer products also had their dark side: Magnavox was hard hit in 1949, when the introduction of the LP record and industry confusion about new frequencies and TV-tube size caused a slump in consumer buying. Overloaded with sets, Magnavox saw its stock plummet, its losses rise. To raise more working capital, it sold 100,000 shares of preferred stock for $1,300,000, stepped up sales - and has not reported a loss since. When President Richard A. O'Connor moved up to chairman in 1950, Frank Freimann took over as president...