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...encourage business Tito has relaxed his nationalization program. Talking to a camera store proprietor in Bled, I found that he was an independent. Like the 1930 NEP in Russia, small trades may remain individually operated provided they do not exceed a certain number per district. A free market in grain and other food stuffs also exists...
While trade and industrial output have increased on the whole, construction has slowed down. A recently built model city, Titograd, in Montenegro stands half-finished and deserted. The ugly, square, cement hotel, a huge department store, administration buildings are surrounded by open spaces and ruins of the old town. Another mark of prestige, the excellent cement highway between Belgrade and Zagreb conveys more hay-wagons than cars...
...schools offers broad basic courses to start the student off. A publication major, for instance, must swallow doses of U.S. or British literature; a librarian must take her share of economics, psychology, and sociology. Later on, the work becomes more technical, with everything from copy writing and store operation to diet therapy and fashions...
...Dallas Museum of Fine Arts last week, Texans got a chance to see how they looked to Grosz. A Dallas department store, A. Harris & Co., had given him a $15,000 commission to visit the city and record his impressions. Grosz's guides say he was like a kid at his first circus; he spent twelve hours a day studying Dallas' cattle yards, stores, churches, bright neon lights and pretty girls. Then he depicted what he saw in 23 oils, water colors and drawings. All showed the vitality and hurry-up energy of modern Texas. Says Grosz...
Died. Dr. Edgar Rudolph Randolph Parker, 80, U.S. chain-store dentist, whose ballyhooing techniques and easy professional ethics boomed his practice but outraged his colleagues; in San Francisco. Booted out of a New Brunswick divinity school for "bad misdemeanors and barefaced falsehoods" more than 60 years ago, he took up dentistry, practiced in Brooklyn, held street-corner lectures on oral hygiene and pulled teeth on the spot. In 1915 he changed his name, thereafter advertised himself as Painless Parker, Dentist. When death came he was running 27 offices on the West Coast, employing 75 dentists...