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...fanatically intolerant state of mind in which the nation went to war. The testimony of "Taps" shows once more that the only time for an individual to make a rational decision about war-resistance is in the months of peace. It is a tragic human failing which makes men shrink from decision until they are no longer masters of their own powers of judgment...
...advertisement cost Macy's $3,000; about $1,000 for the space, $2,000 for the fabric and insertion. Results, according to Macy's, were phenomenal. One skeptical customer laundered the swatch overnight, convinced himself it would not shrink, then ordered a dozen shirts. Shirts and towels sold by the thousand. The Macy advertisement was the first of its kind in Manhattan, the first anywhere in rotogravure. The idea was first introduced into newspaper advertising last spring in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney Dry Goods Co. That the Macy advertisement would be the last...
...which by its 200-year old charter not only possesses valuable (and taxable) business and tenement properties but also has a right to all whales washed up on the lower West shore of Manhattan Island. Mr. Purdy argued that if church property were taxed its value would at once shrink because assessment is based upon market value. The market value of St. Patrick's Cathedral would be nothing because no one could afford it. Furthermore, said Mr. Purdy, the value of such a plot as Trinity's old churchyard is based on the fact that...
...Jacksonville, Fla. "Aunt Mamie" Williams, Negress, complained that worry over her noisy neighbors caused her weight to shrink from...
...Percy took a look at the disputed Article VIII: "If retail groups can fix prices at ... cost plus 10%," reasoned Mr. Percy, "they may logically raise the margin to 15%, 25% or even higher. The adoption of such a principle . . . will choke the free flow of commerce and shrink volume. . . . Sugar coating the price-fixing pill by the phrase 'to insure that labor costs shall be at least partially covered' does not alter the economic fact nor the bad social consequences...