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...midst of a temporary but serious depression. . . . Elect a Democratic Congress in 1930 and this country will not see normal business again for some years...
...blanket of clear hot dry air under high atmospheric pressure. Because air moves from high to low pressure areas, rainladen breezes from the two oceans were unable to penetrate beyond the rim of the U. S. The sun beat down through cloudless skies to blister the earth. Under normal circumstances low pressure areas known as "cyclonic storms" (not necessarily of "cyclonic" velocity and violence) swing periodically across the land from west to east, sucking in and mixing hot and cold winds, producing rain. This year such beneficent disturbances did not cease, but they apparently moved northward from their normal track...
Next thought was: why did the moles and not the mice develop leprosy? Was it because the moles lived underground, ate earthworms, lacked normal vitamins? He raised some mice on diets lacking certain vitamins and infected them with leprosy. Like the moles, but unlike the normal mice they broke out with the nauseating stigmata of leprosy. Here then was excellent proof that he had a virulent strain of the germ, which under special conditions might be prepared as a vaccine...
...Compiling the first 275 statements issued, National City Bank compared the total first-half earnings with the same period last year, found a 24% drop, compared second-quarter figures with the same period in 1928, found the decline was only 3%. Interpretation: the decline in business, compared to a normal year, is not serious. Equally bullish was the statement issued by U. S. Steel's finance committee: "At this date, the manufacturing plants are operating at about 63% of capacity. Indications . . . point to an increase in this rate . . . during the balance of this quarter with an improvement in volume...
...They who pride themselves on being too sophisticated and worldly-wise to indulge in sentiment . . . will laugh with hard laughter . . . will say that Antonio Latour's story 13 sentimental bosh. . . . Well ... I make no claim to literary equality with these sophisticated gentry. But of this I am convinced: All normal men and women who have truly lived to have such emotional memories. . . . No, I have no illusions?I know that I am not so skilled in the art of writing as these proud, unemotional dealers in words. I am only more honest...