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...years ago the city, having already banished Sixth Avenue's trolley cars, tore down its elevated. That only lifted Sixth Avenue's veil. It needed its face lifted...
Last week the veil was snatched away when Morgan, Stanley & Co. made public the SEC registration statement. Viscose was revealed as a $122,000,000 company. Since 1931 it has made $62,000,000. Only in one year did it show a loss ($1,873,000 in 1938). Last year's profits totaled $7,885,000-up 60% over...
...paid his first visit to Boston in the fall of the same year, when the Old Howard chorus was still in its prime. The Athenaeum did not impress him, however; he still complains that the strip-tease act is always the same. "There is nothing new under the veil," he recently told a class as he tied on his philosophical beard...
Last week a veil was suddenly clawed away, and the U.S. got a quick, bewildering look at a desperate moment in the struggle for the most important place of control of the national economy: the power of making and enforcing priorities which will inevitably mean life & death to whole industries...
...Atatürk's trusted lieutenant in civil life. Kamâl Atatürk was a man of great ideas, but of little method. Inönü was his administra tor. Whether it was separating Church and State, freeing women from the veil, changing the alphabet from Arabic to Latin, building a railroad system without foreign capital, deodorizing all public buildings, or raising a new capital at Ankara Inönü set up the machinery...