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...volumes on Currier & Ives, Printmakers to the American People, started a fierce fad. The first volume, which appeared just after the crash of 1929, sold at $40, boomed to a high of $450 before it found its present level of about $100. Volume II, priced at $75, reached a peak of $150. Having dished up Currier & Ives, Collector Peters turned his attention to other forgotten salads, put out two more books on 19th Century lithographs (America on Stone, 1931, $75; California on Stone, 1935, $60). Nothing much artistically, these collections and catalogs shed interesting sidelights on U. S. manners...
Production of 750,000 units was only 10% under the 1929 peak and made 1935 the second biggest truck year in U. S. history. The trend to lighter trucks, however, has reduced dollar volume, which was more than 30% below 1929. Government spending boosted sales, but the prime cause for the truck makers' burst of speed was the spark plug of general business recovery...
...company out of the red, but he is on record with the prediction that White's 1936 production will top the Wartime record by 10,000 units. One of the ablest merchandisers in the industry, he is credited with having boosted White's morale to a new peak...
Because the higher courts are geared to corporation rather than racketeering law, Caridius' career is cut short at the peak. Suspected of being accessory to kidnapping and murder, he forfeits his newly-won seat in the Senate because he is convicted of falsifying his election expenses. In his cell at Atlanta Penitentiary he has the satisfaction of knowing that his wife has taken advantage of the wave of popular sympathy that follows his conviction, has been elected to the Senate in his stead...
...expedition, we did not get to the top of a single peak, for our sole object was to locate the mountains. Some of these peaks are the most impregnable I've ever seen, and one as yet unnamed peak, over 14,000 feet high, had one absolutely vertical cliff 6000 feet high. If they ever try to climb some of these, I hope I'm not around...