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...week's production was 52,560 units, a small gain over the previous week but 21% below last year. A report on general activity during May was made last week by statisticians operating under the auspices of National Industrial Conference Board. They found : "Altogether, the further decline of busi ness in May showed no slowing up in the rate of contraction. . . . Consumer purchasing continued to subside...
...Well, what became of the old full din ner pail? . . . Bank failures blazed in the headlines of every newspaper across the country, bankruptcy proceedings,, fore closures on mortgages, depreciation in the value of prime securities, paralysis of busi ness & industry and. topping it all, 7,000,000 men out of work. . . . The Administration plans for the relief of unemploy ment are indefensible. . . . Why, they passed the question along to the States. localities and private charities [which] cannot cope with the situation. . . . Now, what is the record of these two forms of relief? First is relief in the home; second...
...ranch, but to leave there in November or December with their collection of animals caged for U. S. zoos, were Alexander Siemel, chief animal man, who has recovered from an alligator bite (TIME, April 13) ; Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff, artist and general director; Floyd Crosby, first camera man, now busi ness manager, and his wife (only woman with the party) ; James T. Rehn, zoologist ; Vincent Petrullo. ethnologist ; Arthur Rossi, cameraman; Ainslee Davis, sound engineer; Uncle George Rawls. famed Florida cracker guide: and the dogs. The dogs, typical U. S. hunters, have contributed largely to the expedition's game catch. Most...
...fight in the courts. Emptier Plates. From a sales volume of $25,000 when it was founded in 1904, McBride Studios, Inc. of Manhattan, grew until last year it did almost a half-million dollars' gross - one of the largest companies of its kind in the world. Its busi ness: altars, communion railings, statuary, all other marble church accessories. Among its clients were the Vatican, St. Patrick's in New York, St. Paul's Cathedral, St. Paul, Minn., St. Louis Cathedral, St. Louis, Mo. But last week McBride's went into receivership. Explained Presi dent Paul...
Pawnbrokers, Usurers. Although many pawnbrokers operate legally, in this division a tremendous undercover business is done at shockingly high rates. The average borrower is a wage-earner, usually a railroad or factory man. From the time he leaves work he is beset by usurers in person and in advertisements. Salary-purchasers claim they do not lend money, but pay $50 for a $55 pay check soon due. Unscrupulous pawnbrokers lend at the highest legal rate and then sell the borrower $1 worth of merchandise for $10, thus augmenting their fees. On a $50 loan usurers may extract interest payments...