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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of PM's six years, Marshall Field has been standing off the sheriff. Some weeks the gesture cost him $40,000. By last week, founder-editor Ralph Ingersoll's* pamphleteering paper had set back his benefactor $4,318,000 and the end was not yet in sight. Said Field pointedly: "I won't do it forever...
...flies, mosquitoes, bedbugs, roaches: Use a 5% DDT solution in kerosene, painted or sprayed on screens, walls, mattresses, under sinks, shelves. It is good up to six months but a fire hazard when first applied. Aerosol bombs are less effective than painting; although they kill all insects in sight, they leave no lasting deposit...
...Unless the President shows an unusual amount of political courage, there's going to be a sudden shortage in your purchasing power. The OPA extension bill is now before a joint House-Senate conference committee, and the only real issue lies between hiking the whole ceiling out of sight or shooting it full of holes...
...price controls whenever production of an article reached the 1941 level. That combination of pressure-group policies would raise the indexes a good 25 percent at once, with further sharp boosts to follow as output really begins to flow. Establishing 1941 supply s the norm looks good at first sight, but on closer examination resembles an attempt to measure the avalanche with a rain-gauge. For five years the consumer has been starved for goods, and has amassed an unprecedented total of liquid wherewithal. Pre-war production is not enough to fill the need; lifting the ceiling when...
...pupil had won greater fame, and the master had lived in obscurity. The pupil was Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. The master had been a prodigy too: Georges Enesco, son of a Rumanian peasant, became a highly talented composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and musical scholar. Enesco had almost dropped from sight after his country went Fascist...