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From the Danish newspaper Information: "The general feeling prevailing in Tunis is that France is not yet ripe for self-government...
...deny that Washington accepted command from Artemus Ward under a certain elm (The Washington Elm). The most convincing account shows that because of poor weather and other complications, Washington could not have accepted command under this elm. Yet for years afterward, the tree was nursed and trimmed to a ripe old age of 202. Then in 1923, the poor, wretched elm, filled with cement and braced with iron, crashed to the ground. Unwilling to give up its symbolic ghost, the city government sent bunks of the main trunk to the governors of the forty-eight states and gave...
Miniver mourned the ripe renown...
Discount houses have sprung up all over the U.S. because of 1) the big postwar increase in appliance stores which crowded the field and made things ripe for cutthroat competition; and 2) the U.S. Supreme Court's breach in fair-trade laws a year ago. Like after-hours saloons, discount houses often issue "membership cards" to their customers. Some discounters have little more than a small office and a catalogue; the customer orders from the catalogue, and the discounter calls a distributor and has the product delivered...
With its fantastic ambition, prospects and profiteering zest, Sáo Paulo stands now about where the U.S. stood at the end of the Gilded Age. The time is ripe for a home-grown Henry Ford to show these new industrialists how to make really big money by paying productive wages, adopting the techniques of mass production, and selling more for less. On its record of communal resourcefulness, Sao Pau'o can and should produce the man to show...