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Love on the Dole. In Chicago, Richard Cromwell, told to pay his wife $20 a week alimony, claimed it was not enough, heard his wife protest it was too much. The judge's decision: "You two are still in love...
...Indians would vote at places like Davis Inlet and Northwest River. There, in good seasons, they barter their prized Labrador mink and fox pelts; in bad seasons, pick up their Government dole. Only the Indians wage a battle for existence in the virtually unmapped, unknown interior, and they are losing. Where rigor and hardship have failed to decimate them, intermarriage and the ills brought by the white man have succeeded...
...CHARLES T. DOLE MISS E. G. FAWTHORPE...
...first, Emil will help make but one medium-priced washer, closely resembling the 1942's (G.E. made six prewar models, three of them at or near the loss level to meet low-priced competitors). Most will go straight to G.E.'s 60 domestic distributors, who will dole them out through dealers to the appliance-hungry U.S. (estimates of first-year sales run as high as $2 billion for the industry). The rest will go to globe-girdling International G.E. salesmen who hope to get the jump on competitors for the South American and South African trade...
...account for the long decline and fall of Rome, Durant adopts a "multiple causation" theory. The metals in the Roman State-owned mines ran out. As the old freehold farming class lost its lands to the big owners of the latifundia, the productivity of the soil decreased. The State dole of grain brought men into the cities to join the workless proletariat, and the spoil of Spain, Gaul, Syria and Egypt made Romans think less and less about making fortunes through honest labor...