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...suit a rich man's tastes. The sponsor of Rolls-Royce's latest innovation was almost the first man Rolls-Royce of America ever hired. John Swanel Inskip began selling Rolls-Royces in 1922. Grey-haired, affable, popular, he was elected president in 1929 just before the lean Rolls' years began. Best Rolls' year was 1926 when the net profit was $524,000. Poorest was 1931. when its deficit reached $745,000. No dividend has ever been paid on the common stock (controlled by Rolls-Royce, Ltd. of England), whereas unpaid cumulative dividends on the preferred...
...northern states might have vitamins for breakfast, the Florida Citrus Control Committee agreed to donate 11,000 bushels of oranges per day to unemployment, provided Federal Surplus Relief Corp. would pay packing and shipping costs. Well might Florida make this gesture, for last week she felt that her seven lean years were over...
...fact that last fortnight he broke his own world record with a jump of 6 ft. ¼ in. Spitz, the only other highjumper who has made 6:8½ or better, crosses the bar scissors fashion. Marty goes over Western style, lying flat as he goes over. A tall, lean Californian who looks like Ellsworth Vines, he is a senior at Fresno State this year, plans to coach track when he graduates...
...alternative is some form of Unemployment Insurance or Unemployment Reserves. In good times, a fund could and should be raised to tide us over the lean days which will inevitably follow. Surely the principle is sound; the details are less important. Repeatedly in public speech for many months have I advocated this, May I not hope that the Republican party will adopt in its platform some workable Unemployment Insurance Plan...
...Greenville (pop. 1,000), 22 mi. south of Kokadjo, Nurse Eleanor Hamilton got word from another trapper in mid-November that Allen's hand was mighty bad. Snow had not yet shut Kokadjo in for the winter. Nurse Hamilton found the lean, grey trapper still up & around, but his hand was swollen like a puffball and he felt chilly and feverish. She bathed his hand, gave him some pills and something hot to drink. She came back off & on for two weeks but by then Trapper Macdougall was so much worse that she got a neighbor with an automobile...