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...which J. P. Morgan thought he had sewed up for U.S. Steel once and for all when he bought some of the great Mesabi mines from Rockefeller. Bethlehem has struck down into South America. Now, if Canada comes in, Big Steel's control of reserves-and perhaps its pocketbook-will be further affected. But for the U.S. economy as a whole, for the first time facing possible exhaustion of its finest ores, Steep Rock is still a net gain...
...Dark-haired, C. (Calvert) Coggeshall claims his Plyline Knock-Down chairs are as comfortable as anything Grandfather lounged in. He has emphasized one branch of functionalism a lot of modern furniture designers forget about: the buyer's pocketbook. More stylish than Cooper's furniture, Designer Coggeshall's is built with handsome but inexpensive fir or birch. Like Cooper's, his chairs and tables easily demount to fit into neat packages. A Coggeshall dining table costs $12.50; coffee table, $3.50; chair, from $2.50 to $5. Coggeshall's proudest achievement: a $3.50 table, cut from a single...
...churches, which own some of the choicest blocks of tax-free real estate in the country, feel a cold chill coursing along the pocketbook nerve. The Louisville City Council plans to place all church-owned real estate used for business purposes on the tax rolls. Several million dollars' worth of property, owned mostly by Baptists and Roman Catholics, will be affected. The owners will have to go to court if they wish to protest the assessments...
...scene. Bonds were sold by tomfoolery, parades, fanfare, gags, spectacles, fol de rol-and everywhere. Breathed no man alive in the 48 States, excepting only (possibly) hermits, night watchmen and astronomers, who was not exposed almost daily to lures, enchantments, traps, and high-pressure selling designed to milk his pocketbook of every possible cent for the war effort. Men might groan and women resist, but on the street, in railroad stations, in shops and stores and factories and offices, in restaurants, cafes and lunch-wagons, in movies, theaters and stadiums, over the radio all day and all night, they were...
Taxes are another drain. Unlike every important European opera house, the Met has no claim on the Government pocketbook. Instead it pays $145,000 in real-estate taxes. If these taxes were lifted, a 5% increase in box-office revenue would be enough to put Manhattan's creaky opera company into the black. As it is, the Metropolitan's bookkeepers may well take what comfort they can from the practical philosophy of the Met's first board chairman, James A. Roosevelt (uncle of Roosevelt I). Said he: "We never expected that it would pay. No opera house...