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...money, a "mockup" of the dress is usually made first, in cheap muslin. When this is satisfactory, the muslin serves as a pattern. Compared to her costs, Sophie's selling prices of $255 to $1,500 are comparatively modest. Example: in her most expensive evening dress, the ermine trim alone cost $500, the chiffon another $76, overhead and workmanship, $294. With the markup of 42%, the selling price...
...eight months since he sent Congress a "tight, hardboiled" budget (TIME, Jan. 20), the whizzing U.S. economy had boosted anticipated Government revenues up about $4 billion to $41.7 billion. For paring expenditures, Politician Truman gave the Republican Congress scant credit. Congress, he said, had managed to trim his budget by $1.5 billion, but the actual saving was only $528 million (appropriations for Turkey and Greece, for flood control and other emergencies had cut it down). That was a direct political poke at Republican claims of having saved $3 to $7 billion...
Unforgettable Faces. Portinari lives in an old Portuguese colonial house with faded shutters and a tangled garden in Laranjeiras, a Rio suburb, with his dark-eyed, trim Uruguayan wife and their eight-year...
...Trim & Adaptable. The State Department eyed a somewhat brighter spot in the Far East-the trim, adaptable, hardworking nation of Japan. Japan was under the direct and all-but-absolute control of the U.S. Strategically, it flanked the Asiatic mainland as England flanked Europe. What was more, Japan had a powerful spokesman, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur...
...home. There apparently was just no tennis amateur anywhere in the world who could give California's 25-year-old Jack Kramer a workout. Before leaving the U.S., Kramer had taken the precaution of having lamp treatments for a gimpy "tennis elbow" and last week was in top trim...