Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Artie Angeleno" is green-eyed Jack (short for Jacquin Leonard) Lait Jr., 3 7 -year-old son of the New York Mirror's editor. A onetime screen writer and free lancer, he went to New York last summer to help his dad do vacation relief for Walter Winchell. He was a night-shift city deskman when his bosses shifted him to society a fortnight ago, set him up with an assistant and a telephone of his own. His assignment: to treat real society in cafe-society style. Lait's maiden column, sent to the Chief on approval, came...
...Have Nots. There were other vicious cycles. For want of soda ash, glass makers have been forced to cut down drastically; for want of glass bottles, dairies in New York and elsewhere have been forced to cut down on deliveries of milk, which is somewhat short for want of cows. For want of castor oil, used as brake and shock absorber fluid, automakers could not roll out all the cars they had hoped to deliver. For want of nails to make curing racks. Georgia farmers this year were threatened with the loss of half of their $57,000,000 peanut...
...enormous profits now may make for losses. The high-priced movies Hollywood is making this year may not be shown for as long as two years from now. And by then, even Hollywood's optimists expect that the present box-office rush will be subsiding. In short, Hollywood may find itself peddling high-priced products in a lower-priced market. That thought alone was enough to take some of the shine off this year's pot of gold...
...Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. Eleanor Medsker, a middle-aged grandmother, penned an outraged letter to CPA: "How would you like to wear trousers so short that they come halfway to your neck? On account of you, I haven't been able to buy a dress long enough to come below my knees since the war started. I'm no bobbysoxer. ... I bought a suit that fits perfectly except that I can't sit down without hiking the skirt...
...others in wholesale price. Last week, as cigaret manufacturers raised their wholesale prices ½? a pack, the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. stepped slightly out of line. Lucky Strike, Philip Morris, Old Gold, and Chesterfield went up to $6.50-a-thousand (after trade discounts). Reynolds put Camels up just short of this -$6.48 a thousand...