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Dates: during 1940-1949
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David Dubinsky, the subject of TIME'S Aug. 29 cover story, seems to me a first-rate example of telling the news, whenever possible, through people. Dubinsky and his union, the International Ladies' Garment Workers, also serve, I think, to illustrate the way TIME has kept its readers informed over the years on the significant news of scores of continuing stories...
...rate of industrial layoffs had slacked considerably. In the latest week, said the Labor Department, new claims for jobless benefits totaled only 251,000, the lowest for any week since last November. Department store sales, hard hit by the hot summer, had also perked up a bit; retailers saw better business ahead. At the end of July, said FRB, 296 of the largest department stores had ordered $401 million in new goods, v. $286 million at the end of June...
Mead Makers Ltd., a Gulval firm, is now brewing mead in steam-heated vats at the rate of 300,000 bottles a year. The firm is already shipping some mead to Bermuda; Mexico has given the largest single order so far (5,000). U.S. citizens will have their chance at mead; plain, it tastes like a Rhine wine but has more sting. Special varieties are sack mead, which tastes like Tokay; cyser, in which cider instead of water is mixed with honey to make a wine that tastes like sherry; and pyment, or clarre, which is like claret...
Steel had made good profits, the steelmen conceded, but they had been poured into new equipment and modernization programs. This, and not increased labor efficiency, was the reason for higher productivity, they said. Furthermore, the rate of steel production had dropped 15% in the last six months and profits were down. Some small companies, like Lukens Steel Co., insisted that they could not afford to pay increases at the current rate of earnings. Said Lukens' Robert Wolcott: "Wage increases can't be paid out of past profits . . . [In] the four-week . . . period ending July 9, 1949 . . . Lukens . . . showed...
...prose? Explained Eliot: "There are lots of things you can't say in prose. I can write verse better than prose. When it is colloquially spoken, the very rhythm gets under people's skins and has a kind of atmospheric effect . . . The effect of first-rate verse should be to make us believe that there are moments in life when poetry is the natural form of expression of ordinary men and women...