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Last week two New York Stock Exchange seats were sold by disgusted broker-owners for $33,000 each, lowest price since 1899. Even in 1933, Wall Streeters paid up to $250,000 for seats. But by last week, the 26th of U. S. industry's post-Flanders upward trend, it looked as though Wall Street was one place in the U. S. where the defense program was definitely depressing...
...only one way to do this job. That is by fiat. ..." William Trufant Foster was just as gloomy, told hardwaremen: "I was on the Consumers' Advisory Board of the NRA and found it was window dressing. . . . The Government can't control the price level and stop the upward spiral." But unlike Johnson, he concluded the Government should keep hands...
...muscles and leap like a jitterbug. His cavorting was invariable: he curved his fingers like claws, walked on the outside of his feet and jerked his legs in the air. Sometimes he twisted his head to one side, curled his lips in a sneer, and rolled his eyes upward, mumbling and clucking to himself. The only way to stop an attack was to lie down and go to sleep...
...flat so that motorized columns can romp over it at will unless they meet their military match. The only major obstacles of terrain are the great rivers which flow southward into the Black Sea. While the Ukraine looks flat, it is actually underlaid by layers of rock sloping slightly upward to the east. These layers overlap one another like shingles and the rivers run beside the overlaps, with one low bank subject to flooding and one steep bluff on which most of the big towns lie. But the high bank in each case is on the west so that...
Born John Florence Sullivan in Cambridge, Mass. 46 years ago, Allen during his early career was known as Paul Huckle. Progressing onward and upward in vaudeville, he did a turn as Fred St. James and Freddie James before he finally became Fred Allen. As he went along he added patter to his act, acquired a facility for playing the banjo and clarinet. Sometimes he even broke into song. He did his stuff all over the U. S., spent the 1915-16 season touring Australia. He was fond of old vaudeville standbys, worked up laughs when his audience was cold...