Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOUTHERN BELLE (407 pp.) - Mary Craig Sinclair-Crown...
Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair, 74, is probably the only woman still living in the U.S. who can claim to have been described as "svelte" by Mrs. Jefferson Davis. Hers is a truly romantic as well as a wonderfully goofy story-the memoirs of a Southern belle who married a notorious radical. It is husband Upton Sinclair for whom the belle has now told all, and her revelations carry his strangely sentimental imprimatur ("My Southern belle remembers tenderly those dear dead days . . ."). The book, irresistible to students of U.S. life and manners, is the story of Mary's life with...
...went to Miss Finch's school in Manhattan, all sorts of things other than magnolia hung heavy in the air, notably suffragists, single-taxers and Socialists. It was a Red dead sea full of poor fish dreaming of a bookless future. The biggest catch in it was Upton Sinclair, most renowned of muckrakers. whose novel The Jungle had assaulted the citadels of the Chicago meatpackers with the near-violence of a near-vegetarian. The book had been intended as an attack on porkpacking capitalists; actually it made the U.S. not sick of capitalism but leery of canned meat...
...where the market would go next, few were hazarding a guess. Members of the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council, meeting in Hot Springs, Va. with Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks, foresaw a lull in business expansion, but predicted that business will continue at a high plateau through most of 1958, though it might slip 1% or 2%. Plainly, the stock market, influenced by Wall Street's pessimism about the business scene, has already discounted a much bigger drop in business than any economist or businessman could foresee...
...only Sinclair and Indiana Standard have publicly conceded that the ruling leaves the major companies little choice but to go along. Yet the importers know that if they refuse the voluntary cutbacks, they face mandatory controls by the Government, may even come up against legislation in Congress to reduce imports. Though only ten of the 22 curbed importers say that they can meet their quotas by January, their imports are slowly inching down, will average 849,300 bbl. daily by December, not too far from the Government's goal of 755,700 bbl. daily for the year ending next...