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Last month General Motors Corp. reported its best first quarter since 1929, its fourth biggest first quarter in history. Net income of $52,464,000 was a thumping 66% ahead of the first three months last year. In April GM's U. S. sales of more than 200,000 cars smashed its previous monthly record set in 1928, and combined U. S. and foreign sales topped a seven-year-old mark. With these figures at hand, GM directors sat down last week to do even more than President Roosevelt and his proposed tax on undivided profits would have them...
...four years before he saw England again. Besides his job as ship's doctor he had the un-naval post of naturalist, and intended to keep a weather eye out for Mollusca, Acalephae, Cirripedia, epizoa, Radiata and such. He rigged up a home-made tow-net to snare his specimens, soon ran afoul of the navigation officers, who complained that the net slowed the ship's way, took to dumping his catch overboard when his back was turned. As the long voyage wore on, Huxley found that such setbacks, like the difficulty of peering through his microscope...
This does not mean that 2,000,000 families are now camping in the woods waiting for houses to be built for them. Building has merely fallen behind the net increase in the number of families and the normal rate of housing obsolescence. The slack has been more than taken up by two or more families sharing what is rated as a one-family house or apartment. During Depression the usual method of doubling up was for young married couples to return to their parents or for parents to descend upon their married children...
Thence, to pay my bills, and all day with--in the country. Here, much surprised, did meet--, net in hand, chasing bugs, and very prettily...
...case both of these meetings will be broadcast on a world-wide book-up. The National Broadcasting Corporation. The Columbia Broadcasting System, and the World-Wide Broadcasting Foundation (W1XAL) have generously turned over their entire radio net-work for the occasion