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...villages and farms buy a large chunk of the consumer goods sold in the U. S. Last week a research committee, jointly sponsored by CBS and NBC, made public a report which gave a partial answer on how well radio was doing its job interesting and selling the farmer. The committee's researchers conducted 20,362 personal interviews on farms and in communities of less than 2,500 population in 96 sample counties scattered throughout the 48 States. What they found out, they consider a fairly accurate slant on the radio habits of the nation...
...nation of 45,000,000 inhabitants springing out of eastern Europe, and printed a map of future "Great Ukraine." Most of the new State would be carved out of the Soviet Union, where 30,000,000 Ukrainians live under the rule of Dictator Joseph Stalin, but a sizable chunk would also come out of Poland (3,200,000 Ukrainians) and a generous slice out of Rumania (800,000 Ukrainians...
...municipalities along the Colorado River to build their own power plants with PWA aid. Texas Power & Light has 1,277 miles of power line serving 13,200 customers in this Texas area, which is as big as Massachusetts and Connecticut combined. Last week, President Carpenter offered to sell this chunk of his system to LCRA, saying "the difficulties which confront power companies, faced with competition from power projects which are heavily subsidized by gifts of Federal funds, compel us to work out some plan with you to prevent the destruction of our properties. . . ." Mr. Carpenter also wound up with...
Among other economies he decided to lop a chunk off the salaries of the "highly paid" State employes and dedicate it to the unemployed. Total economy drive sum: $6,000,000, trifling by U. S. relief standards but nearly 8% of Cuba's revenues, the equivalent of $425,000,000 to the U. S. Treasury...
Howard Hopson blundered in letting his Associated Gas system buy a fat chunk of U. P. & L. Class B stock in the 1920s. when shares sold as high as $90; Class B shares are now selling at about $1 each. What is more, in receiverships, debentures come before stock. So Floyd Odium's aces looked better than Howard Hopson's kings. In any case, Bill Douglas stands to win, for Floyd Odium hastened to say that he, for one, would not appeal any "death sentence" for U. P. & L. He thought it was "good economics apart from...