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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circ. 450,000), insists that "the press is now venal in a different way from before the war. It still gets money from [big business] trusts, publicity or the government's secret funds." But the charge can neither be proved nor disproved. The government allots newsprint, pegs its price, and subsidizes the news service A.F.P. (which could not exist otherwise), but expression is free...
...million and 75,000 shares of Hoving Corp. common stock (worth about $800,000 at its present price), he bought control of New York's six John David, Inc. men's wear stores (last year's gross: $8.8 million). That deal gave Hoving a total of 13 stores, boosted his current gross to an annual rate of $28 million...
...building (Lindner Coy's) for a new store next year, bought a site in mushrooming Houston to build another $1.3 million store. In between times, he leased three small Manhattan stores and opened his new subsidiary: Anson-Jones Co. It sells only women's dresses, at one price: $29.95. (On net sales of $19,518,654, Bonwit and Anson-Jones netted $754,866 last year...
Highest. The cost of living reached an alltime high in April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The Bureau's index rose 1.4% to 169.3 (1935-39 equals 100), more than wiping out the drop caused by February's commodity price break...
...Angeles, Bullock's department store next week will put on sale a hatlike home hair dryer for women, the "Turbanette." Price: $6.95. (It will soon go on sale in 30 other stores in 16 other cities.) The inventor, John Moore, ex-aircraft engineer at Lockheed, got the idea from seeing aircraft engines packed with sacks containing silica gel (a deliquescent powder) to protect them from moisture. The turban of cotton muslin packed with silica gel will dry a woman's hair-after washing-in half an hour...