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...practical private charity that Mr. Taylor does is enormous. From his own pocket he has paid for innumerable funerals, bought wooden legs and glass eyes, met rent bills. In 1934 alone The Voice paid for 413 blood transfusions and the hospital bills of 583 unwed mothers...
...mouse outstrips the lion, isn't it TIME-worthy? In 1934 Universal, with its novel Univex, brain child of O. W. Githens and J. J. Shapiro, made and sold more cameras than any other manufacturer in the world, Eastman included. With its new super-lightweight folding vest pocket camera, made of aluminum and with "airflow lines" and retailing for an even dollar, Universal is set to produce 50,000 cameras a day this year...
...whole the U. S. railroads failed to earn their fixed charges last year by $35,000,000. No less than 30 failed to earn their out-of-pocket operating expenses. Of course, many a road like Pennsylvania, Union Pacific, Atchison, Chesapeake & Ohio, Virginian and Bangor & Aroostook earned not only fixed charges but dividends besides, but the great majority were deep in the red. A wage increase of 5% will take effect in April, topping two preceding raises of 2½% since last July. Traffic is not expanding. And while Jesse Jones might assure the carriers, as he did last week...
Digging in his pocket for a roll of bills, the President peeled off $113. Surprised, Postmaster Farley said something about not having any change, finally fished out 50?, gave it to the President...
Then, after arranging his pocket 'kerchief, he strode boldly forward, progressing a few yards before the ice gave way. With the nonchalance of a cigarette model, the hero rolled out upon the thin ice and dragged himself to safety, effecting a rather neat self-rescue. On emerging from his polar bath, he remained ashore just long enough to tell the crowd which had gathered that he was a member of the Boston Brownies, the Bay State division of the cult of polar bathers...