Sure Youre Getting What You Pay For Swiss Watches
An analysis of price gouging and fraud in Swiss watch sales in the United States. The piece outlines two main cheat methods: selling above ceiling prices and deceptive marketing, with chains from importers to jobbers to retailers driving inflated costs. It notes Pearl Harbor era bans on certain movements and the shift to Swiss movement demand, plus the emergence of multiple profit layers that pushed prices higher.
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Ngton
OPA
New York
Pearl Harbor
Casto
War boosts marriage rates among age groups in New York
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Statistical plan shows wartime marriage shifts with more under twenty and over thirty five marrying, while 16 and 17 year olds and 19 year olds show varied patterns. Older brides and grooms over 35 rose substantially, with up to seventy three percent for women and sixty five percent for men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Metropolitan Liferance Co
18th Annual Memorial Held At Jamestown
The Jamestown Methodist Church hosted the 18th annual memorial service on Sunday afternoon with Rev Kenneth Goodson delivering the principal address. The event honored local citizens in a program led by Rev C M McKinney, featuring solos by Betty Lynn Williard and piano by Emily Bundy.
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Kenneth Goodson
Muir's
Methodist Church
Greensboro
Jamestown Methodist Church
Jamestown
C.M. McKinney
Eddie B. Armfield
Williard
Bundy
Idol
Goodson
Jesus
Ellen Swiggett Anthony
George Williamson Armfield, Jr
Mary Elizabeth Hanner Barbee
Robert Lee Beck
Annie Modlin Billings
Maisie Lineberry Brown
Annie Johnson Bundy
Alice Merritt Burney
John Addison Burney
Mary Susan Boles Craven
Martha Dozier Flagge
William Elijah Frazier
Sidney Alexander Gayle, Sr
Sidney Alexander Gayle, Jr
Oscar Eugene Hassell
William FE. Hayworth
Victor Marshall Johnson
Uniform Rate Opposed By Interests
Washington June 19. Industrial and railroad interests argued against a uniform freight rate system for the south and east during ICC hearings. South and southwestern spokes men said current rates hinder development while western representatives urged against rate equalization, warning of nationwide reshapings.
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Washington
Ewa
Rianne
South
East
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Minnesota
Iowa
North
South Dakota
Duluth
Minn
Topeka
Wichita
Kans
California
New England
Ohio
Indiana
Early English Playwright Fatally Stabbed in Deptford Tavern
The one minute test cites Christopher Marlowe as the victim of a tavern brawl in Deptford near London. It also lists The Battlecry of Freedom author Thecee F Root and American novelist David Graham Phillips among the answers.
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Deptford
London
New York City
Christopher Marlowe
Shakespeare
Thecee F. Root
David Graham Phillips
Quintuplets Reach Safer Childhood Milestone
Metropolitan Life statisticians report the Dionne quintuplets have entered their eleventh year, a period with the lowest mortality risk. The May 28 birthday marks a milestone in their early life.
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Quints Safer Now
New York
INS
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Notable Names in Local Obituary List
A long list of individuals including Sgt Harrison Thurston Jones and J Byron White appears in a memorial or obituary notice. Other names include Lena Loftlin Katherine Murray Pauline Rule Laura Rogers Addison Robinson and Lula Shelley among many more, indicating a community record of deaths or achievements.
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Harrison Thurston Jones
William Kester
William Thomas Kirkman
Lena Ham Loftlin
Katherine Beery Murray
Pauline Yarborough
Rule
Laura Car! Rogers
Addison Baxter Robinson
Lula Leonard Shelley
Daniel du Val Smith
Mar Cook Smith
Mary Jane Coo Smith
Ulysses J. Smith
Robert E. Southard
Minnie Asenath Burney Suits
Mary E. Sykes
Mary Wooding Venable
Elkanah Swaim Vickery
J. Byron White
Helen 8. Wills
Annie Eliza Riddle Wood
Daniel L. Wright
Patrolman Fox Earns PhD in Fluid Interfaces
New York patrolman William Fox recently earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Columbia University. His spare time research centers on equilibrium relationships between fluid interfaces, examining the system methylene, iodide water air as outlined in his doctoral thesis.
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Onset
New York
INS
William Fox
Columbia University
Women Form Purely Female Cleaning Force in Cincinnati
The Cincinnati Service Department started a Women Wing Corps an efreet cleaning group composed entirely of women. Applicants must be 20 to 40, in good health and strong. The job pays 72 cents an hour or 34.56 a week.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Service Department
It Takes Fat to Make Dynamite Quote Sparks Debate
A historic remark claims that a pound of fat yields half a pound of dynamite, reflecting a provocative metaphor used in debates about industry and energy amidst economic tensions.
Gallbladder Diet Proposed for Dyspepsia and Stasis
A diet by Dr. Albert F. R. Anderson emphasizes frequent small meals rich in fat to drain the gallbladder and ease dyspepsia. A sample day includes milk, eggs, cereals with cream and sugar, bread and butter, potatoes, vegetables, pudding or ice cream, and olive oil or cream. water intake should be high.
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Albert F. R. Anderson
Anderson
Library workshop opens at Shaw University
A five day public library workshop opened today at Shaw University for 15 Negro patrons from North Carolina and South Carolina. Sponsoring the workshop are the North Carolina library commission and Richard B. Harrison public library.
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Raleigh
Shaw University
Carolina
South Carolina
The
North Carolina Library Commission
Richard B. Harrison Public Liry
Green Islands Bloom as Pacific Paradise After Four Months
After Allied occupation four months, the Green Islands in Nissan in the South Pacific appear as a paradise with air strips buzzing day and night. Combat and transport planes operate from Nissan and seven surrounding isles while nurses make daily stops. Jungle cleared for airstrips and camps, natives wear bright garments, weather is moderate.
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Nissan
South Pacific
Green Islands
Alexis Smith and Craig Stevens wed in Glendale
Blonde film star Alexis Smith and actor Craig Stevens married yesterday at Church of the Rec... in Glendale. The Rev. Stuart P. MacClene nan officiated as many film people attended the ceremony. Stevens, son of Gail Shickles, recently left the army medical discharge six months ago.
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Glendale
Calif
Alexis Smith
Craig Stevens
Church of the Recsonals
Stuart P. MacClenenan
Stevens
Kansas City
Gail Shickles
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James Marlow and
George Zielke
Normandy
Venning
By Logan Clendening, M.D
Clendening
Library Workshop
Leon Pawinski
Gary
Ind
France
U. S. Signal Corps Radiophoto
International
America
Gulf
GULP
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