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...Looked forward to toasting the nation in eggnog, and to reading Dickens' Christmas Carol to a family group which would include five grandchildren, Daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, Daughter-in-law Ethel du Pont Roosevelt...
Paris was happy last week-the statue of the Zouave on the Pont d'Alma still had a dry midriff...
High Prices. In Chicago's district court, antitrust intervened in a patent-infringement suit brought by the foundation. Last week antitrust charged that the foundation has conspired with 16 companies, including Standard Brands Inc., E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Pet Milk Co., Parke, Davis & Co., to suppress competition in the manufacture & sale of vitamin D. They also, said antitrust, limited the potency of vitamin D used in the widely advertised "enriched" bread, milk and other foods, thus preventing such foods from competing with the regular vitamin-D products...
...Chicago, Mrs. Eleanor P. Whitaker, a Du Pont textile consultant, noted that more & more women war workers appear at factories in sleeveless, jumper-style dresses: "They are finding out that men don't care to see women in slacks...
...Schram cried out a warning against the unhealthy boom in the low-priced "cat & dog" stocks (TIME, March 15, 1943). Last week, the "blue chips" led the parade of some 245 stocks onto new high ground. A.T. & T. hit a three-year peak, while Chrysler, Westinghouse, General Motors, Du Pont and many a retail-store stock reached new highs for 1944. And the tone had changed. Grumblers had long complained that every slip of the market meant that U.S. investors have no faith in the peace. But now, day after day, "peace" stocks charged ahead, while "war" stocks lagged...