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...limping along at only 65% of capacity, Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. said that "it looks as if it would be two years at least" before there was enough steel. Ford Motor Co. did more than grumble; it earmarked $18 million to build a blast furnace and buy a secondhand rolling mill to turn out steel itself...
Trash on High. Eisler denies that there is any such thing as a "history" of film music: "The person who around 1910 first conceived the repulsive idea of using the Bridal March from Lohengrin as an accompaniment is no more of a historical figure than any other secondhand dealer." Neither does he think that movie music is getting much better: "Progress has become perverted into calculating the audience's reactions, and the result is a combination of third-rate entertainment, maudlin sentimentality. ... It consists only in the fact that trash was taken out of its humble hiding place...
...despite their dulled protests, few U.S. citizens were pinched and most were living better, housing shortage and all, than in any other era. The national hunger for new automobiles was insatiable; in every city in the land people were paying secondhand dealers from $300 to $800 over list prices for cars which had been made "secondhand" by being driven around the block. Housewives kept on buying expensive cuts of meat. Baseball was having its biggest season...
...railroad analyst for Kuhn, Loeb & Co., adviser to RFC, and operator for about a year of the strikebound Toledo, Peoria & Western (TIME, May 18, 1942). He had some young ideas for Monon, and he put them into effect as he traveled over the Monon in his business car (purchased secondhand from the Southern Pacific in 1887). As a result, when the Monon celebrates its 100th anniversary this week, it will be as frisky...
Last week the election was still going on. But the Russians were no longer in northern Persia. The Russian-sponsored Tudeh Party had collapsed throughout Persia. Americans were now the vogue. Persians bought $1 million-a-year worth of shabby American secondhand suits. Persian women clamored for stilt-soled shoes and Hollywood hairdos. Sidewalk hawkers shouted "American nylons!" Fishmongers even cried "American fish...