Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pros. The pro-subsidy argument is short & sweet. When there is plenty of money but a scarcity of goods, prices will go through the roof unless controls are applied. The controls must not cut down production or squeeze too many people out of business. But when selling prices are rigid, while costs rise, businessmen are squeezed hard. Then, argue the subsidizers, the only way to prevent price inflation, without interfering with production, is for the Government to pay the difference between cost (plus a reasonable profit) and selling price...
Good shots: Director Frank Borzage's dance-floor crowds moving to hot and sweet music by Benny Goodman, Kay Kyser, Guy Lombardo, Freddy Martin...
...Sweet and Honeyed News...
Priorities on clay, the usual ocarina material, are no difficulty. "Sweet potatoes" shaped out of plastic have the added advantage of being practically unbreakable. Since Pearl Harbor, sales of plastic ocarinas have skyrocketed. Biggest manufacturer, the Fred. Gretsch Mfg. Co. of Chicago and Brooklyn, now sells some 250,000 to 300,000 a year...
Today only a handful of virtuoso ocarinists rate the honor of membership in Boss James Caesar Petrillo's American Federation of Musicians. But the "sweet potato" has its quota of passionate partisans...