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Last week Utilitarian Foshay was starting on his fourth year as paid secretary of the Salida Chamber of Commerce. The annual membership drive was under way and he was working like a beaver. Back of him were three years of success. Salida was on its way to becoming a ghost town in the early '30s. The Denver & Rio Grande Western took away its shops and offices, two mines closed down, 3,000 citizens moved away. First thing W. B. did was advertise. On the highways he set up strings of hearts bearing the admonition "Follow the Hearts to Salida...
Admitting that she had never done any work on men's clothes whatsoever, she went on to explain what she would do if she could design their clothes for them. "You're all so utilitarian," she complained, looking disgustedly at the clothes of the men in the room. "For instance, you pick your materials for the reason that they won't show dirt! What you should do is to try to be less drab...
...Once a year Factory-Builder Kahn makes a concession to his artistic (10%) nature. He takes on a residence, and the firm, geared to turn out industrial designs on a mass-production basis, loses money on the job. Usually in Georgian or Tudor tradition, it ill compares with the utilitarian beauty of its factory brothers. But it is "Albert's baby," and nobody minds...
...master at saying indefinite things is Mrs. Roosevelt's husband. He was never in better form than last week. For his first press conference after Utilitarian Willkie was nominated, Mr. Roosevelt was 20 minutes late. Said he with a grin: the elevator (to his second-floor quarters) had stopped; somebody had turned the power off; he did hope that there was no connection with what had happened in Philadelphia. Correspondents saw the President glance at his secretary, Brigadier General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson, heard Mr. Roosevelt stage-whisper to a companion: "He is grinning like a Cheshire...
...Olds: "The North American Co. and its operating companies expect to meet with their own resources all of the obligations arising out of any national defense problems. . . . This will require as never before the use of all resources of capital and man power. . . . We will use them fully." Utilitarian Shea laid on the line a $29,000,000 addition to a $61,000,000 construction program announced in January. The new items: 60,000 kilowatts for Cleveland, 50,000 for Washington...