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...Wiconsin. He shows his German ancestry in fat cheeks and a chubby body. He wishes he did not look so young. He has always been interested in the promotion of new business and persuaded the company to start national advertising, although the consumer does not directly buy the product. Last year Perfect Circle spent $351,000 in advertising, this year it will spend more. The result has been increasing replacement business to offset the declining needs of manufacturers. Lothair takes a big interest in departments other than that of sales, is considered ''the next-in-line-Teetor...
...lungs are a pair of sponges through which oxygen passes from the air into the blood. The oxygen rides with the red cells of the blood through the arteries to every part of the body. Life is a slow, low-burning fire which oxygen keeps going. Product of the combustion is carbon dioxide. The blood, relieved of its oxygen, carries carbon dioxide through the veins back to the lungs. Venous blood is dark red with carbon dioxide; arterial blood is bright red with vigorous oxygen. The lungs inhale oxygen, exhale carbon dioxide. The heart is simply an alert pump...
...whole world!" cried Cattleman Robert P. Lament Jr. "From what I have seen and heard already, they contemplate doing on a rapid and gigantic scale what is done gradually by individuals in our Western States?the transformation of cattle from longhorn, rangy animals with comparatively low meat product to modern shorthorn meat stock...
Historically the Sales Tax is a product of the economist's study. Its prime feature is its universality. The Wartime excise ("nuisance") taxes on a few commodities were a limited form of sales tax. Such conservative Republican Senators as Utah's Smoot and Pennsylvania's Reed have from time to time proposed it as an equitable levy but have never pushed it because of what appeared to be a solid U. S. tradition against direct Federal taxes on everybody. Any wealthy man who agitated for a sales tax was suspected of trying to wriggle out of income taxes. Chief sponsor...
Since he became Speaker, his prestige has increased greatly among his colleagues because of his evident impartiality and fairness. Northern Democratic Congressmen find no reason to complain of any slights. In fact they will tell you that they like him more than ever. And although he is a product of the Solid South, they seem to consider him more in the light of a Westerner...