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Stripped Shelves. The year of industrial growth began in fear and foreboding. In January, the U.S. still quivered from the shock of the Red Chinese intervention in Korea and the U.N. retreat. Consumers, fearful that war production would wipe out civilian goods, started a great wave of panic buying. Department stores, whose business normally skids after Christmas, found sales skyrocketing-and prices right along with them. To try to stop the rise, Price Boss Mike Di Salle put ceilings on all prices. The effect was to reward the chiselers who had already jacked up their prices and punish those...
...fought harder to grasp this prize than Railroad Juggler Robert R. Young, who owns 51% of MoPac's outstanding common stock. For two years he has opposed a plan, tentatively approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which would wipe out the common-stock interests, give control of the reorganized road to the bondholders. Last week the fight erupted in a rash of full-page ads across the nation and a flurry of charges and countercharges at an ICC hearing...
...over a return to the good old days. Two-a-day vaudeville was back at the old Palace Theater, and there was resounding applause for Judy Garland, who had brought it there. For 75 minutes on opening night Judy burned up the boards with "electric excitement," paused occasionally to wipe her brow with a bright scarf ("It isn't very ladylike, but it's very necessary"), and sang such old favorites as Somewhere, over the Rainbow and The Trolley Song. One critic predicted the show would stay a year. Wrote Critic Ward Morehouse: "I doubt if there...
...suggest the first awakening of dishonorable intentions toward Blanche, Stanley's subsequent apelike pursuit now comes as a surprise. Legion attacks on the obvious "carnal" element in Stanley's relationship to his wife were not too successful; short of cutting her out of the picture, they could not wipe that smirk off her face...
...people scrabble heroically for survival behind their leaky dike. The warm yellow water climbs a foot an hour up the face of the levee. Sweating, grunting workers raise extra barriers of sandbags just ahead of the rising river. Sand-boils, bubbles, slides and settles, one after another, threaten to wipe out all efforts in one great gush of doom. The glare of fusees mixes menacingly with the sweet smell of floating gasoline. Debris swims silently downstream to clog up on the bridges, finally carry them away. A privy goes by, "pivoting slowly like a model in a fashion parade." Fleming...