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...They dump ashes in the streets. Then there are the handbills. A man can give out 1,000 handbills in an hour. Nobody is interested in them. We do our part, but we don't seem to get much credit. Anyway the streets always seem to be dirty. But the thing about it is, they dirty 'em and we clean 'em up, and they dirty 'em again. . . ." Socialites heartily applauded Street Cleaner Mark O'Connell...
...could see the shimmer of deep drifting snow left by the blizzard. When his radio went dead he had to fight by guesswork along an unfamiliar course. Then a chill fog enveloped him and his plane started to fall. Frantically he tore open its mail compartment, began to dump sack after sack over the side. A farmer near Deshler, Ohio, 50 mi. south of the Chicago-Cleveland airway, heard a plane roar over his roof. He heard a motor cut off. He heard a crash in his wood lot. He found Lieut. Lowry's mangled body in the wreckage...
...Vienna news of the Englis suggestion caused foreign holders of Czechoslovak crowns to dump their hordes frantically. At Prague the Czechoslovak Government tartly declared that "Professor Englis' suggestion is far from being realized," emphasized that only two days before Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Eduard Benes ("Europe's Smartest Little Statesman") had affirmed once again that the crown will not be taken off gold...
...quota) from world supply. This is about 20% of world production. This will undoubtedly tend to raise the world price but if private hoards of silver begin to leave India and China (which hold 600,000,000 oz.) or if Manhattan's silver speculators decide to dump their 100,000,000 oz. holdings, the inflationary effects of the new policy will be blunted at the start...
...structure is being left as it is and out of it is being created the new Civil Works Administration. . . . This program certainly cannot benefit the heavy industries. It cannot produce much that is valuable between now and Feb. 15. It will certainly lead the localities more and more to dump their entire relief problem on the central Government. It will certainly discourage the private building industry. ... It will certainly cause men who are now loafing on made work with nothing to work with or at, to loaf more hours. ... It will certainly afford an alibi for the incompetents...