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...polls. Nowadays Mr. Hurja apparently places much reliance on the Gallup polls which are being syndicated in 70 newspapers as the American Institute of Public Opinion. Dr. Gallup's first poll, taken in February 1934, rated Roosevelt strength at 69% of the electorate. Subsequent ratings fluctuated, tended generally downward. Lowest rating was 50.5% last September; last rating was 53.9% two weeks...
...business (TIME, Feb. 3) was one reason cited for weakness in can stocks. But Owens-Illinois has thus far gone into cans in only a small way, and both American and Continental commonly tie up their large customers with long-term contracts. A more reasonable explanation was a downward revision in estimates of American Can's 1935 earnings. American Can had been figured to make almost $7 a share. More recent estimates pared prospective earnings to $6 or less, compared to actual 1934 earnings of $6.72. The price of tin plate (and therefore of tin cans) has not changed...
...speculation. In that orgy of 'prosperity' slum conditions went unheeded, better education was forgotten, usurious interest charges mounted, child labor continued, starvation wages were too often the rule. . . . Mammon ruled America. Those are the years to remember-those fool's paradise years before the crash came. Downward Spiral. "This nation slipped spirally downward, ever downward, to the inevitable point when the mechanics of civilization came to a dead stop on March 3, 1933. You and I need not rehearse the four years of disaster and gloom. . . . You and I can well remember the overwhelming demand that...
...Month. Sits alone; turns over when laid face downward; waves...
Terrestrial gravitation, acting unequally on unequal masses, may produce downward thrusts. But are there not forces beyond Earth causing upward thrusts? Professor Watts last week reminded his hearers that Earth is not alone in space but is clutched at by the gravitational pulls of its celestial companions...