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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some U.S. installment buyers were having the usual unhappy experiences. Kansas City and Detroit noted an increase in the number of attachments and garnishments. A typical example was a Kansas City housewife who was sued by a downtown department store after she had bought three dozen pairs of stockings, five pairs of expensive shoes, several pieces of fancy lingerie, several pints of perfume and a quantity of bath salts-all on installment. When her husband, a railroad man, began to lose his overtime pay, she had to default and the law moved...
...110th time this year, police haled David Douglas Davenport into court, charged him, as usual, with illegally selling liquor in Washington's Union Station, saw him, as usual, prepare to beat the rap. Davenport keeps his liquor in station lockers, sells the key-not the liquor-to his customers. To avoid charges of loitering, he always carries a ticket to Baltimore in his pocket...
...pleasant to see Sally Eilers again, even as a hungry widow; all the other players do all right, too, within the modest requirements of this kind of piece. The Cinecolor, as usual, is fine so long as the colors are low-keyed, but in open sunlight, all outdoors looks like a roast beef special...
Champagne & Talcum. Last week he was genuflecting more vigorously than usual before his brother's memory. He was doing everything in his power to get Huey's 29-year-old son Russell elected to the U.S. Senate. He sent his big, tough-looking Lieut. Governor Bill Dodd out on the road to blast Russell's closest competitor, Judge Robert F. Kennon, who had also had the audacity to oppose Earl for governor last January...
...Unilever's products had shucked their plain-paper wrappings of World War II. Almost always, a designer has to compromise his ideas with the maker's notions of indispensable, brand-identifying trimmings. For Unilever, French-born Raymond Loewy could shoot the works. His terms, as usual, were cost (for the man-hours and materials of his 200-man office, $100,000-a-month payroll) plus an unrevealed annual retainer. On past jobs, the retainer has run from...