Word: cautionings
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Even a man who made a million dollars a year (there were only 94 by the most recent count, as compared with 513 in 1929), would feel a certain caution after paying up to $770,000 in tax. Many of the nation's heavy spenders, who kept the big nightclubs and the Florida hotels open, used expense-account dollars, which was still fun-but not quite in the same old, free and purposeless...
About 30 puddings were actually delivered to the tasters. Many more girls, with more caution, merely wrote in to find out if the whole thing was on the level...
...news was good; yet few consumers seemed to be setting off rockets. Maybe it was just a perverse American custom to worry when prices went up, and worry also when they went down. There was certainly some caution in the air. Florida had never had so many tourists, but along Miami Beach, where workmen had labored overtime under nightlong floodlights to build 19 new hotels for the booming luxury trade, that trade was no longer booming. In Seattle a waitress complained: "Things are starting to tighten up all right; you get twice as many 10? tips...
...seen before the story assumed its proper focus. After his five days with Hogan, whom he liked and respected, Smith invited the golfer and his wife to come out to the house the next time they were in New York City. However, he added a note of caution : "You may not want to after you've read the cover story." As of last week, it looked as if the Hogans and the Smiths would be getting together soon...
People were spending their money with more caution; some businessmen were encountering some bumps; some wage groups had been left behind. But in general, he said, the country breathed confidence in the future. Moreover, he said, it breathed a new air of democracy...