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...paper's expenditures last year came to about $42,000, income was approximately $42,900. Salaries range downward from the editor's $75 a month to $12 a month for the women's editor, less for salesmen, clerks, stenographers...
...likable O'Briens this was far from grinding penury but worse days lay ahead. Last year, with sales up 5% over 1938, net profits continued downward, wound up at 51? per share. Mrs. O'Brien's dividends were down to $135,000, 70% less than 1930, 55% less than 1933. For this Standard Brands could chiefly blame the fact that few U. S. citizens like the taste of yeast, no matter how many vitamins the Fleischmann brand contains. More than a decade ago, when the U. S. housewife had quit baking bread at home, Fleischmann...
...litter of a studio. In his teens he turned to sculpture, wrangled with his teachers at the Berlin Academy for a couple of years before striking out on his own at 16. His sculptural characteristics: eyes sealed shut without any lid line showing, mouths that curve sinuously downward. A medium-sized concrete piece, practical Peter Fingesten figures, costs him only 50? for cement, 80? for other materials...
...citizens have misunderstood every step in the downward path of U. S.-Japanese relations. They thought the Nine-Power Treaty of 1922 was designed to maintain the integrity of China; whereas to the Japanese it was merely "a gangsters' agreement to divide China's spoils." They thought Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931; whereas Japan merely "established Manchukuo" in defense of her own rights. They certainly failed to realize the real reason for the China Incident which began in 1937: Japan's solicitude for a fellow race being plundered by alien powers. But the worst mistake...
...crackled, splintered, flew in all directions like straws in a whirlwind. In the vibrant words of the radio message which reached the Navy Department : "Dr. Poulter, faced with almost certain disaster, did the only thing possible and, without hesitating, he applied full power. Throbbing and roaring, the cruiser swayed downward, leaving a wake of splintered debris behind. Expedition members, who were anxiously watching the maneuver from the ice, cheered ecstatically. Admiral Byrd, who insisted on sharing the risk of the unloading, warmly congratulated Dr. Poulter...