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...carry vast inventories which in meat's present upward swirl have proved wonderfully profitable. Employment is at least 110% of normal. Last week, after decorous palaver with employe representatives, the Big Four consented to up wages 8%. Topping an 18% increase at the start of NRA another 10% boost last December, last week's raise put the industry's wage scales above 1929 levels. Little packers throughout the Midwest promptly followed suit...
...nearly starved, but hung on, sold a few "poems," helped edit Puck for six months, got a lift here, a boost there, made friendships with other writers, editors, artists. Markets opened and checks began dropping in. His peak year was 1913 when he was taken into the Players' Club ("the best club in the world") and covered the World Series in verse for United Press...
...inflation?" Economists promptly gave them an answer: "It is not inflation but it is inflationary." Nobody knew exactly how much silver bullion was in the U. S. last week, but it was estimated at around 200,000,000 oz. When the Government takes this over it will tend to boost the world price for silver just as the price of wheat would tend to rise if the Government locked up 200,000,000 bu. Moreover the citizens who last week owned 200,000,000 oz. of silver will, after they have given it up, receive $100,000,000 in cash...
Arthur Mullen, Democratic boss of Nebraska, had traveled to meet Mr. Roosevelt in the Rockies and put that quotation in his ear. For the eloquent Congressman was Nebraska's Edward R. Burke and the President was giving him a backhanded boost to capture Nebraska's Democratic nomination for Senator...
...troubled little baker in Glenns Ferry, Idaho (pop. 1,414), last week was E. W. Nestak. He had been charging his fellow townsmen 9¢ a loaf for fine unsliced white bread when an order came from the NRA Bakery Code Administrator to boost his price to 10¢. Honest Baker Nestak thought it best to obey but he also wrote to his senior U. S. Senator to ask if the order was legal and binding...