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Friday evening. Our radio batteryless because I can't afford new ones. The wife tired from a trying day with the youngsters. I tell her to sit down and rest and I'll get supper. Decide on eggs scrambled with chipped beef and chopped celery. Light the oil stove and put double boiler on to heat. Twenty minutes to six already. Our time is two hours behind Eastern Standard. Eggs mixed, celery chopped, beef shredded, ready for cooking. Light oil lamp, set table, put on bread, preserves, butter, milk, catsup, sugar and cream. Put two tablespoons coffee (think...
...John Stockholder could still afford to clap his hands as he saw other companies show deficits reduced, deficits turned into profits, and profits turned into bigger profits for the first nine months of 1933. Even the few companies whose nine-month profits were smaller than a year ago showed growing earnings for the last three months. Some reports to John Stockholder...
...though John Stockholder could afford to grin at most of these reports he saw last week another set of reports, not of what business had been like in July, August and September but of what it had fallen to last week...
There is small question that capital in the United States will have to set to work very grimly for its own preservation, as it did in Italy and Germany, and is doing in Great Britain. It cannot afford to temporize or to concede, and if the administration does not back down in the fashion of the German and English reform parties, a very sizeable clash will be the result. The President, I feel, has had his day of liberalism, and, in Mr. Soule's figure, the new deal will "turn up the old marked cards" once more...
Even though the experiment may never reach the high schools, it must be watched closely, for should there be the slightest indication that these lucky children were not being as well educated as they were, a halt must be called to this academic backsliding. The private schools can afford to use these faney recipes on account of the comparatively small numbers they handle, but if ever there were a time that the public schools should provide thorough education for the mass of the population...