"Our volume of business," says Harry J. Bauer, vice president of New York Steam Corp., "is in the hands of the Lord." He can prove his point statistically: in 1940, when the average temperature during the heating season was 42 degrees (v. a "normal" of 43.2), New York Steam made $504,000; in 1941, when the thermometer averaged a muggy 45.5, the company lost $340,000.
But last week—though New York City was still digging itself out of a blizzard—even fatalistic Harry Bauer would admit that he owed his booming business more to the war than to the Lord. For the East...
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