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...there are certain clouds on the business horizon which later on may or may not blow up into stormier weather. The chief of these is the tendency of individual and institutional investors alike to place funds in fixed rather than liquid assets. This tendency accounts for much stock market activity, and for the even wider and greater speculation in land and improved real estate. So far has activity in both these fields gone, that the wiser heads in Wall Street and the more hard-bitten realtors of Miami are now wondering where the limit is. It is not yet clearly...
...Story. As Tristram Wing passed the vicarage window he was distinctly nauseated. Mrs. Orpin and the two females he could hear buzzing with her were like three fat blow-flies scavenging in the middle of a road. Their morsel was the subject of the Rev. Mr. Orpin's note, which Wing had come to answer. It was his wife, Brenda, upon one of whose actions a skulking poacher had chanced to spy. During the interview, Wing mentioned his nausea and damned the whole gabbling village...
...story drawn closer than ever through having had to examine their philosophies?Tristram's easy-going "all's-well-with-the-world," Brenda's aloof "live-and-let-live". In village and vicarage, where intolerant stupidity sprouts as prickly and impenetrable as a monkey-puzzle (cactus) tree, the blow-flies scavenge as of yore...
...leather is also slowly improving. War stocks at post-war inventories are now practically all distributed, and tanners are gradually cheering up. However, leather substitutes have cut heavily into the business, and the recent advent of female shoe style employing little or no leather has alone been a blow...
...Atlantis* is returning. ... As the result of recent seismic disturbances in the Pacific [Japan, Santa Barbara], a new plateau is protruding upwards from the bowels of the earth on the opposite side of the globe. . . . Without striking a blow, France will have another province, New Gascony...