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...orders swamped the small company. Its product became bad, and business soon fell to nothing. Dr. Kalmus turned the tide by what he calls "an osmotic oozing toward perfection." He developed the two-color process into a three-color one (red, green and blue), thus could reproduce every shade of color. This gave Technicolor a virtual monopoly on three-color pictures. Dr. Kalmus has done his best to keep it that way, by his tight control of every phase of operations...
Both the Republicans and the Democrats believe in ancestor worship. Last week the G.O.P. made its annual bow to the shade of Lincoln; this week the Democrats will honor their heavenly twins, Jefferson and Jackson. Harry Truman would make his obeisance to tradition by sitting down with a repentant Jim Farley at the Democrats' Jackson-Jefferson Day dinner in Washington...
...Yorkers, who disregard nature until it makes more noise than the subway, paid scant attention to the snow that was falling when they awakened one day last week. The day was almost mild (29°), the sky was a conservative shade of grey and the wind breathed as apologetically as a Japanese diplomat. The snowflakes themselves descended in a silent and orderly manner, like letters dropping down a mail chute in a good trust company. It was mid-afternoon before the average citizen began to notice how heavily the smothering snow was falling (it averaged 1.8 inches per hour...
...that they were too high. The long-term bonds have been selling anywhere from one to three points above par. When the Federal Reserve Banks stopped buying, prices promptly dropped. Although Federal Reserve was mum on the new support level, Wall Streeters guessed that it might be just a shade above...
...sentence might have been stiffer if Flick and associates had not risked trouble with the Nazis by feeding, housing and clothing, their slave laborers better than the law decreed. Presiding Judge Charles B. Sears of Buffalo, N.Y., also found "some shade of justification" in Flick's plea that German industry itself was being persecuted in his person. As for the $40,000 yearly payments to the Nazi Party, Judge Sears said it was perhaps "not too high a premium to insure personal safety in the fearful days of the Third Reich...