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Roosevelt & Recovery had raised wages. New steel prices, up $3 to $4 per ton, had raised the cost of basic raw material. So last week the Automobile Industry, prize pupil of the President's Recovery class, raised its prices...
...costs about $1.50 to make a case (3 gal.) of raw whiskey. Barreling, bottling, casing and four years' storage are estimated to bring the cost up to about $7.50 per case. Taxes of about $11 make it $18.50. Wholesalers and retailers must cover operating expenses and license fees, but what happens is that every one along the line from distiller through middleman to retailer figures his profits not on whiskey costs alone but on cost plus taxes doubled and redoubled...
Charles Johnson was under sail in the days of windjammers. Mostly he shipped as a cook, and in the galley learned how to use a knife on raw meat. When one of the crew broke a leg or tore an arm Cook Johnson and the captain used to patch him up. There was generally a "doctor's book'' on board which gave directions. Two years ago senility and a burned leg drove Charles Johnson to New York City's Home for Dependants on Welfare Island. When they asked him what he could do, he told them...
...condition. Two weeks later he died, officially of bronchial pneumonia. But in the interval his wife and half-brother had seen him bound hand & foot, with two teeth knocked out, a gash over his eye, a lump on his chest and so badly bruised that he "looked like a raw piece of meat all over...
...Death, pestilence, starvation and crime scurry unchecked through the dank rookeries of the Ghetto, Red Hook, Harlem and San Juan Hill. Slums have been a festering social problem for more than a century but Manhattan's death roster of the last few months has rubbed the public conscience raw. Pure economics always blocked slum-clearance, but in the open-handed lending policies of the New Deal crusaders have seen an opportunity to solve the problem once & for all. So far no one has been able to surmount the fact that new tenements cannot be built to rent so cheaply...