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...Christmas presents Mrs. Hoover paid $80 for 40 pairs of candlesticks fashioned from the copper of illicit liquor stills. They were the product of veterans undergoing occupational therapy at Walter Reed Hospital. The Washington Police Department contributed the material following 'legger raids about the city...
...this is so, only consumers demand can not the whoels of industry in motion. As means of increasing sales, coercive selling and installment plans are new in well deserved disrepute. The only remaining method for encouraging buying is to improve the product and to lower its price. Reluctantly and as a last resort some industries have decided to make long awaited technical improvements in their processes and goods. Perhaps the stolid engineer will soon occupy the throne which the florid sales man has abdicated...
...Author is a product of the period he writes about, has had a good journalistic bird's-eye view of it. Graduated in 1912 from Harvard (where he worked on the Lampoon with Critic Robert Benchley, Artist Gluyas Williams), he went from a teaching job at his alma mater to the Atlantic Monthly, to the late Century Magazine as its managing editor, to the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine. He is now associate editor of Harper's. Though he has written much for magazines, Only Yesterday is his first book...
...sell dope or whiskey or women, somebody is going to get jailed, hurt or killed. In some cities even such a homely thing as the family wash may cause cracked skulls, bombings. Last week saw the continuation of a new kind of peacetime war. The Nation's milk, product of patient kine, beverage of babies, churned up in violence.* Near Plainfield, Ill. The Guernsey herd of Isaac Lentz, an independent dairyman who had withdrawn from a local milk distributing association and cut his price, lay in their stalls placidly swishing their tails and chewing their nocturnal cuds. Suddenly Farmer...
Milk Producers Association accounted for burnt barns, dynamited trucks around St. Louis. In Portland, Ore. last August, dairymen demanding higher prices seized distributors' trucks, poured the milk into ditches. At the same time in San Francisco a price war robbed milk of all value, when the product was given away free. In New York City last week, where Mrs. William Randolph Hearst was enjoying her annual Milk Fund celebration to supply milk to poor people's babies, the Health Department commission recommended a ban on all unbottled milk sales at retail...