Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short time Greening had his money, and arranged with a printer to publish a book of his watercolors. By last week all 5,000 books had reached the subscribers, and there were already 1,000 requests for more. Colonel Greening's careful watercolors were not first-rate art, but for the graduating class of Stalag Luft I they made a historic yearbook. And to men who had survived air combat, his paintings rang true...
Hotel accommodations, transportation, communications, etc. will be handled by the Japanese, though traders must pay for them. Businessmen will be able to travel freely, deal with any companies they please. But SCAP will continue a measure of control. At the beginning there will be no official exchange rate on the yen. A rate will be set by SCAP only when enough business has been transacted to make the rate realistic...
Last week in Manhattan, Simplicity's President Joseph Michael Shapiro, 58, who is cut to a short, chunky pattern, added up the reports with a pleased smile. They told him that the pattern business was booming as never before. At the present rate he believes thrifty women will buy 15% more patterns this year than the record-breaking 120 million sold in 1946. More important to Shapiro - who knew that V, M and B meant Simplicity's potent competitors, Vogue, McCall and Butterick - it proved that S was more than holding its own as the biggest U.S. pattern...
...Rate Idea. Pop Shapiro had had no intention of following it when he brought his immigrant family from Russia to Toledo, in 1914. He worked as a laborer and mechanic until he got a job as an advertising salesman on a small fashion trade magazine...
Vanilla Please. When a drugstore and a grill in Riceville, la. offered ice cream at the cut rate of 20? a pint, competitors lowered their prices to 15?. Soon the price war reached the point where ice cream was being given away. One store finally posted a sign: "One cent paid to those asking for a pint of ice cream and taking it out of the store." The war ended only when ammunition...