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...Unless the businessmen of America have been shell-shocked into nervous impotence," cracked back Mr. Richberg, "there must come a time when they will respond to the fighting spirit of that old admiral who signaled: 'Damn the torpedoes. Go ahead...
...Roosevelt has pursued a policy so radical in its implications that it has antagonized the leading business interests of the country and has precluded cooperation between Washington and Wall Street. In this mutual antipathy and distrust, many economists have found a leading cause of the failure of industry to respond to the artificial stimuli embodied in recovery legislation. With this obstacle removed from the path to prosperity, the government new faces again the barrier of labor hostility. But with 20,000,000 people on the federal relief rolls, it is impossible to understand the opposition of sincere labor leaders...
...such pictures as King Kong Hollywood has devised automatons capable of more complex movements than Alpha, but never one that responded to the human voice. Anxious to avoid any suspicion of ventriloquism or of a hidden assistant pushing control buttons, Professor May removed the robot's breast plate, disclosing a mechanism like the interior of an ordinary radio. Publicly he explained that Alpha's repertory of answers consisted of 20 or 30 recordings on wax cylinders, as in oldtime phonographs, which were run off in the control cabinets and reproduced from the loud speaker in the robot...
When it was suggested that many might not respond because of being too conscious of their affliction, he pointed out that there was to be no regular class, and he would treat with each man individually and informally...
During the past week there has been little change in either the direction or velocity of the various business currents which afford a cross-sectional view of he recovery movement to date. Characteristic of the past several weeks, certain sections of industry readily respond to the continued lavish flow of Federal funds like the froth on a pitcher of near beer which fails, however, to have any real exhilirating effect. Until the heavy industries react in convincing fashion, which can only come from renewed business confidence, government spending will only produce evanescent results...