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...travel book is very apt to cause us to pause and wonder if, after all, the best things in life are indigenous only to the land of electric ice-boxes and the "New Humanism". It is not just that "America's England" is splashed with the bright colors and soft hues of a distant land that makes it appealing reading. Between the lines there is something more, very politely suggested, something that points to a difference in civilizations and a difference in living one's life...
...side streets and along the main road clear to the Essex Depot. Workmen knocked out the blocks and a two-masted fishing schooner skimmed down the ways and across the Essex River. They had put on no snubbing line so the craft bedded into the soft earth of the opposite bank. Paid for by Mr. and Mrs. Thebaud, their son-in-law Robert McCurdy. and Basset Jones - all "summer people"; built by Capt. Arthur D. Story; designed to outsail any fishing boat afloat, the Gertrude L. Thebaud will go to the Grand Banks for a summer of fishing to season...
...section of the House-Democrats and midwest and western Republicans- wanted special votes on at least three items: sugar, cement, soft lumber. It was their last chance to vote these rates lower than they are in either the Senate or House Bill. Another section of the House- members from 13 beet sugar states- combined to protest any vote on sugar, lest, somehow, it be reduced below the possible maximum (3? per Ib.) set by the House Bill. A third section of the House - regular eastern Republicans - wanted the bill sent directly to conference without any voting which might alter their...
...shovelers dug narrow channels through the drifts. Schools all closed when attendance dropped to 20%. The snow even blanketed crime: not one case was docketed in Morals Court during the blizzard; only six robberies were reported to tho police. Abandoned automobiles along the streets were encased in soft bulgy white outlines. Railroad yards became chaotic as switches jammed. The Illinois Central put a long string of freight cars out along its lakefront line to serve as a snow fence. The city's milk supply was sharply reduced while suburbanites subsisted on canned goods. Lifelines had to bo stretched...
...rails) 157.28 and (utilities) 106.13. Notable was the fact that the first stocks to start recovering included most of the utilities (which had suffered severely in the crash). Union Carbide, American Tel. & Tel., Steel, American Can, General Electric continued as leaders. Stocks which started the year off poorly remained soft. Selling of Montgomery Ward on lower earnings, Gillette on beclouded patent situations, Simmons on a truer understanding of its sales figures, Industrial Alcohol on lower prices, sent these issues to new lows...