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...Missouri cooperator named Howard Cowden organized $3,000, an old truck and two rusty oil storage tanks into a consolidated purchasing agent to supply five Missouri co-op stores with petroleum products. True to the U. S. co-op tradition, his Consumers Cooperative Association at first steered clear of any sort of production, operated simply as a wholesaler...
...management this should be possible. What the University can and should do is provide housing, for with Cambridge, rents what they are, overhead is a particularly knotty problem. The location on a second floor of Church Street should be regarded as temporary, or at least a nucleus; for the co-op should have not only a dining hall and kitchen but common and game rooms as well. This will eventually involve a separate building, or, better, three: one north of the Yard, one south of the river, and a third near the Yard for undergraduates. For the distant future...
...service: within two years D.E.C. had supplied the needs of approximately half of them. Coop, as a result of its first three years, has extended its services to some 1,500 farmers at current date. It hopes to serve 4,000 to 5,000 when and if effectively established. Co-op rate for 100 kilowatt-hours per month is $5.07; D.E.C. sells 100 kilowatt-hours per month for $3.39. Co-op borrowed $2,000,000 from the Federal Government. It is a fact of irrelevance that D.E.C. paid a little over $2,000,000 in taxes to the Federal Government...
...good scare was thrown into U. S. retailers last summer when the New Deal manifested a sudden interest in the broad subject of consumer cooperatives. An outright endorsement of the co-op movement was actually drafted for the Democratic platform, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was plugging the idea in book and magazine, and President Roosevelt was so impressed by Marquis W. Childs's Sweden: The Middle Way that he dispatched a commission to Europe to study co-ops on their native soil. The co-op commission spent more than two months abroad, returning to find that co-operation...
Although few U. S. readers are likely to take Co-Op as much more than an ingenious tract, it plainly reveals the source of Sinclair's international reputation. With a gift for simplifying complex political questions, he writes in a field that interests politically-conscious Europeans, and one which few U. S. novelists have touched, Bitterly resenting the neglect of his achievements by serious U. S. critics, Upton Sinclair usually counters by mentioning the wide circulation of his books abroad. The Jungle is the most widely-read U. S. novel since Uncle Tom's Cabin. Oil has been...