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White Tile and Vegetarians. Childs has ridden out many another crisis. Founded in 1889, it got off to a fast start because Brothers Samuel and William Childs got aboard two great trends of the 20th Century: 1) the anti-germ wave (they insisted that cheap food should also be clean food); 2) the quick-lunch craze (when they went into business there was nothing but the free-lunch saloon between carrying your own lunch to work, or eating at a leisurely, expensive "continental" restaurant). Periodically Childs ran into stone walls - as when wheatless, meatless days in World...
Time Conquers Time. There is an opposite pole to this stillness. It may be discerned behind "the strained time-ridden faces, distracted from distraction by distraction," of any great city, any "place of disaffection...
Died. William C. Aberhart, 64, Alberta's Social Credit Premier; of a liver ailment; in Vancouver, B.C. Ex-schoolteacher, fundamentalist radiorator, moonfaced "Bible Bill" Aberhart preached a new millennium, was elected to produce it in depression-ridden 1935. His version of Clifford Hugh Douglas' theories tried to combine funny money, state control of credit, a feeble application of the Keynes public-works principles, handouts à la Townsend. The attempt was foredoomed by Alberta's economic dependence, the hostility of courts and capital. One of the few non-Marxian reformers taken at his word and told...
Striking is old stuff to the tough, hardened, cough-ridden miners of "dark and bloody" southern Illinois. But this time, when the deadline came on Friday night, it was different. In the bars of West Frankfort, among the men from Orient No. 2 (world's largest producer of soft coal) and Old Ben, there was an undercurrent of uneasiness; many had the shadow of a feeling of shame. The men were solidly behind Old John L., they would do what he said, all right. But their hearts were troubled; it took only a few beers to reveal a slightly...
Profit & Loss. I.T. & T.'s report showed consolidated net earnings for 1942 of $2,142,545 v. a $193,218 loss in 1941. The debt-ridden parent holding company still showed a net loss of $1,021,537 v. a $2,568,862 deficit the year before. After three years of a war which seemed to be conducted on the principle of overrunning I.T. & T. properties one by one, the 39-page report showed that just about every thing bad that could hit the company had already hit. The only...