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Like a mammoth jack-in-the-box, the U.S. toy industry has bounced up high and merrily in its first full postwar year. Before this Christmas has come & gone, retailers expect to sell a record-shattering $250,000,000 worth of toys...
...still there may not be enough toys to go around. Toy production has not increased as fast as the sales volume (due in part to a 20% rise in prices since last year). Toymakers, like everyone else, have been plagued by shortages, and toys will have to be spread over 5,000,000 new users (born at a record rate during...
...hill, had vanished almost as completely as if the fire-blackened rock had opened and engulfed it. There were a few pieces of metal, few larger than a man's hand. Fifty feet from the point of impact lay a golf club and a child's toy train...
...doesn't pay to hit Joe Louis so hard it hurts him. By keeping things on a friendly basis, such smart boxers as Bob Pastor and Billy Conn induced the Brown Bomber to toy with them for as many as eleven and 13 rounds before the inevitable kill. But Tami (rhymes with mammy) Mauriello, the tubby Bronx challenger, decided to play rough. At the opening bell of last week's title fight he walked out from his corner, took one look at the overconfident Louis, and pitched a right with the urgency of a man unloading a hand...
...prizewinner was a five-foot straw woman with a lifelike straw baby on her back. The baby did the scaring, with a toy windmill whose blades swung in the wind. From the woman's belt dangled a paper banner inscribed: "Increase Production...