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Alfred Reeves is a neat, bustling little man of some 60 years who holds the distinction of having been the first U. S. automobile editor (on the New York Mail in 1902). Then he became sales-manager of the long-extinct U. S. Motor Co. and in 1913 took over the management of the Automobile Manufacturers Association, then called the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Thus occupied ever since, he has seen the A. M. A. grow into one of the nation's most potent trade groups. One of Al Reeves's jobs as A. M. A. vice...
...members will make it possible for every-one in the world to work four hours a day, four days a week, eight months a year, and earn minimum pay of $3,000 a year, advancing to $30,000 by rapid salary raises. War and illiteracy will be extinct. Every family will have a $25,000 house. Pensions of $3,000 a year for oldsters will start at once. But none of I.I.U.R.A.'s benefits will be in cash. It will abolish money, substitute a new Utopian medium of exchange...
...successive Sundays, every family in the U. S. had a wild duck for dinner, the wild duck would be as extinct as the passenger pigeon. In 1886 the same number of U. S. citizens could not have extinguished the wild duck population if they had eaten duck for a fortnight. But ducks had already begun to decrease and it was in that year the Bureau of Biological Survey was created to study U. S. wild life. As the Bureau grew bigger, the U. S. game bird population grew smaller...
Meantime, two of the nearly-extinct Southern New Dealers, Senators Black* of Alabama and Bilbo of Mississippi, who have to do a lot of interpreting of their liberalism when they get back home, sought to soothe their farmer constituents by doing something now. They trotted around petitioning for a special Congressional session in October for the express purpose of enacting a farm bill. Calling a special session is strictly the prerogative of the President but it was understood that Mr. Roosevelt did not object to the petition. He cared not whether his comprehensive farm legislation (ever-normal granary...
...broad fingers a tiny mousetrap, left it on his desk to surprise one of the myriad night inhabitants of the Produce Exchange Building. Such minor prey interested Mr. Smythe not unnaturally, because his business was almost wholly concerned with the minutest values in finance-those of forgotten or extinct securities...