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...hundreds, by thousands, the Episcopalians trooped up to the altar. Singing fervently as they marched, they pulled $10, $5 and $1 bills from their wallets, fluttered them on the altar steps like autumn leaves. When the last of 5,000 people had passed by, Bishop Perry shuffled into the pile of money, lifted both hands for the congregation to kneel with him in a prayer of thanks. Then seven attendants stuffed the bills into bags, carried them out to be counted-$7,916.56. Meanwhile New York's small Bishop William Thomas Manning had marched, not up to the altar...
...Ransom Eli Olds is the only man in the U. S. with two automobiles named after him (Reo, Oldsmobile). The white-crested old founder-chairman has watched his company pile up $9,000,000 of deficits in four years. The Michigan bank crash tied up 70% of the company's funds. Working capital declined from $20,000,000 to about $7,000,000. Early this year Founder Olds, now 70, emerged from retirement to win a proxy battle for control, has since been active in a thoroughgoing internal reorganization. An important point in any merger talk is Reo's truck...
...interests are not yet willing to utilize the enormous amount of credit available, the Government must, has and will continue to do so. Since January when credit expansion began. Government borrowing and spending has increased bank deposits 15%. In time the cumulative effect of Government borrowing and spending will pile deposits so high that private initiative will regain courage. Then the virtuous circle will gather speed just as contracting credit speeds the vicious circle of deflation...
...street once more, he hailed a taxicab, rolled down Pall Mall, past the sooty pile of St. James's Palace. The Major rapped on the window...
...farm products were by no means the only goods exchanged for dollars last week. Silver trading was soaring to the highest levels in months when the President's order nationalizing the metal halted trading forever. Hastily taken as inflation, it poured volatile fuel on the speculative pile of other world goods. Because U. S. exchange promptly sold off, foreign traders swapped their dollars for pounds, francs, yen, then swapped their currencies for world commodities in U. S. markets. And last week when this market activity was added to inflation talk and both added to the fireworks in domestic farm products...