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Vogue ran far ahead of this chill and modest ambition. Throughout the '20s and '30s, in its pages Nast decided what made fashion-sense in the welter of Parisian, New York and Hollywood ideas, about everything from decor to dogs. The Dest-dressed women in all U.S. towns were Vogue subscribers; stores fought to listed as outlets for goods advertised in Vogue, and thus the Nast judgments set patterns far beyond Vogue's own cirulation of a few hundred thousand. To his own women-readers Nast brought the excitement of modern art, from Seurat to Modigliani...
...Committee found the Government's early handling of the rubber shortage a welter of "procrastinations, indecisions, confusions of authority and lack of understanding." Another horror the committee found was the fact that rubber officials had ignored the priceless advice of Russian technicians who had ten years' experience in making synthetic rubber. Said the committee: "Inexplicable...
Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch had completed his investigation of the rubber scandal; at week's end he sat down to write a short, terse summary of the facts. Official Washington heard that he would report a welter of confusion and mismanagement in early handling of the shortage. He might be persuaded to soft-pedal all that, but he would state flatly that the situation is now so critical that all pleasure driving should be eliminated and automobiles used only for essential business. He and his brainy colleagues, James Bryant Conant and Karl Taylor Compton, had also looked...
...clock next morning, the delegates began to file back into the convention hall in a welter of excitement and rumor. The meeting was 45 minutes late starting; the leaders were all gathered behind the speaker's platform; nobody knew what was going on but everybody knew something...
...tests were made in a welter of polite doubt. Peter Masefield, No. 1 lay authority in Britain, wrote in the London Sunday Times that it would be a tragedy to squander American lives in U.S. heavy bombers over Germany-either by day or by night. The New York Times quoted him, repeated his suggestion that the U.S. craft-Flying Fortresses and Consolidated B-24s-be assigned to coastal duty. The New York Herald Tribune got the same sentiment from R.A.F. men. News services picked up the British contention, broadcast it far & wide...