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...there is another reason for this recent prosperity. Although department-store sales are 75% above their depression lows, inventories have risen less than one-third, and the gap between the two is the widest ever (see chart). Normally, low inventories are a sign of smart merchandising, meaning faster turnover, fresher and more attractive goods. In 1941, low inventories are also a danger signal. If storekeepers keep their shelves so bare in the face of a still soaring demand, they may soon awake to find themselves forced to buy in a priorities-ridden seller's market, bidding prices...
...denies that the issues raised at such meetings are controversial, for all political and economic questions in so far as they are not trivial are necessary controversial. But open controversy is not a subtle poison from which the untutored public should be protected. On the contrary, the widest possible dissemination of conflicting viewpoints, together with all available accurate information, is a prerequisite for the growth of enlightened public opinion. Harvard can provide that prerequisite and it is is its duty as a democratic institution...
Federal Theatre was allowed the widest latitude of any government theatre ever heard of. It got loud approval from most commercial theatre people (just as libraries are approved by booksellers). It grossed $2,000,000 at the box office and at the end of the project its receipts were meeting all expenses-costumes, scenery, lighting, royalties, advertising-except labor. It was killed by Congress in June 1939. Like almost every enterprise, public or private, at the time, Federal Theatre had its radical elements. But an almost Neanderthal illiteracy played a part in Federal Theatre's murder. In the Dies...
Affiliation of the Harvard Movement, possessing its own camp and projects, with a group like the Quaker or Work Camps for America gained the Widest support. These two organizations, similar in their general construction and purposes, have formed summer work camps throughout the country...
Oldsmobile's line is the widest in its 43-year history, includes wheel bases from 119 to 125 inches, engines from 100 to no h.p., prices from $852 to $1,575. A little more streamlined, new models look much like the '40s. Hydra-Matic drive (no clutch) is optional on all models...