Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Pierino walked briskly on to the stage of Paris' Palais de Chaillot, dressed in a Little Lord Fauntleroyish black velvet jacket, white lace collar, and short pants. The podium had been built up so nine-year-old Pierino could see all of the 70 musicians of the Association des Concerts Lamoureux. He conducted Schubert's Unfinished without a score, and handled it decisively. He was less certain in Beethoven's Fifth-the brasses got away from him in the finale. But he did well enough to touch off 20 minutes of cheers. Pierino took seven...
...ovation that greeted Furtwä1;ngler this week might have been bigger-the audience was willing-but he cut it short. As soon as he reached the podium he raised his arms for silence, launched into his all-Beethoven program. Furtwä1;ngler's performance of the Fifth Symphony, whose first notes had been the Allies' wartime theme, brought down the house. People crowded down the aisles, cheering and calling him back time after time...
...were other cracks in the surface smoothness of the economy. The Department of Commerce reported that manufacturers' new orders, at last count, were lagging behind shipments, while wholesalers' inventories, up from $5 billion in November to $6.7 billion at the end of March, were still rising. In short, current production in many industries was higher than current demand. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that factory employment had dropped by nearly 140,000 between mid-March and mid-April, the first decline since the reconversion low of 15 months ago. Some of this was "seasonal...
...help members meet "temporary disequilibriums" in their international payments, had its first customers. The severe European winter had forced France to import large amounts of U.S. wheat, with a consequent drain on its supply of dollars. France got $25 million by paying francs to the fund. The Netherlands, also short of foreign exchange, put up guilders for $6 million...
...dapper, suntanned Sam Behrstock, 43, estimates that his yearly anniversary sale increases his volume of business the rest of the year by 40%; people remember the name, come back. Behrstock started his give-away sale ten years ago, feels it is cheap advertising. Says Behrstock: "The idea was just short of an inspiration. And it makes me feel good to give...