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One-quarter of the cotton crop had been plowed under. For this Agriculture Adjustment Administration was slowly paying out $100,000,000 bonus. Good weather made the yield of the other three-quarters far above normal. Last week spot cotton was selling for a shade over 9? per lb. (last...
President Roosevelt's New Deal is not radical enough to suit U. S. radicals. To Communists the NRA appears as just one more capitalist plot to grind down the proletariat. To Socialists it seems like a bungling, inadequate attempt to apply government supervision to capitalism. But it does, they...
To watch Johnny, 17 mos. old. roller-skating through the corridors of Manhattan's Babies Hospital, dressed only in a diaper and shoes, is that institution's favorite daily diversion. Johnny has been roller-skating since last April, which was before his first birthday. He now boldly coasts...
Colleagues, including Yale's reclusive, ape-observing Professor Robert Mearns Yerkes, tried to placate Professor Kornhauser. Intruded Psychological Corp.'s Dr. Henry Charles Link, who has worked for Winchester Repeating Arms Co., U. S. Rubber Co., Lord & Taylor and Gimbel Bros.: "We first try to find out what...
"In the aggregate, consumption of goods by the ultimate consumer has re- mained at a very high level even during depression. . . . Judging the character of stagnation in business solely on the basis of consumption, we find that the depression is marked by sharply reduced con- sumption of producers' goods...