Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Regulation. MPR-330 provides that no seller of women's and children's coats, suits and dresses may carry a higher price level than his top line in a 1942 base period (usually March). The praiseworthy purpose: to keep low-priced goods of any kind in circulation. This blinks the unhappy fact that one hundred $20 dresses gross as much for any seller as 1,000 dresses at $2, but OPA hoped that the big low-price retailers most affected by MPR-330 would force their thousands of suppliers to continue to make and sell cheap merchandise...
...John D. Rocke feller Jr. added $2½ million of properties to his Manhattan real-estate holdings last week. Among his new tenants adjoining handsome Rockefeller Center were three bars (one a milk bar), two five-chair bar bershops, a used-jewelry shop, a corse-tiere, a secondhand bookstore. Seller; Beatrice Bend Berle, wife of Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (Mrs. Berle is now a practicing physician in Washington, D.C.) This was the biggest Manhattan realty transaction in seven years. But it had special significance: the latest Rockefeller acquisitions (at three Sixth Avenue corners-two at 48th...
...slogan: "We'll make the world safe for hypocrisy." In a parade up Broadway, V.F.W.s carried death's-heads, the drum major a crutch. The campaign landed the V.F.W. on the nation's front pages. The U.S. that had made Merchants of Death a best-seller cheered; veterans of World War I jeered. Exploded James E. Van Zandt, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (and now a Congressman from Pennsylvania): "They're too yellow to go to war. . . . They'll never be veterans of a future...
Digging for suggestions, he browsed through a copy of the Digest, came upon a condensation of Victory Through Air Power, the brash, controversial best-seller dashed off by Major Alexander P. ("Sascha") de Seversky to advertise his passionate belief that the war can best be won by bombing planes of unprecedented size and range, wielded by an independent air command...
Horowitz has been able to achieve much more rapport with his great father-in-law. Toscanini has given him brilliant support in two of the most bravura concerto recordings ever made: the Tchaikovsky Concerto (a fabulous best-seller), and the B Flat Major Concerto of Brahms...