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...about cooking, more about people, their gossip, scandals, fighting, country dances. Its highlights are Nell Peters' illegitimate baby, Cousin William's scandalizing city wife, the axe murder of Aunt Het. Like The Country Kitchen, its charm is that it dramatizes the horse-&-buggy atmosphere of an old almanac...
More nostalgic than any memoir, however, is The Old Farmer's Almanac which last week made its 147th annual appearance. Published for the last two years by Little, Brown (is), it now lacks the crotchety personal stamp of Founder Robert Thomas, no longer carries temperance articles, nor illustrates them by pictures of a sinister mother mixing gin with milk to pacify the baby...
...There are 18 industrial, railroad and public utility corporations in the U.S. with assets of more than one billion dollars each. There are twelve financial corporations in the same class....In each of 22 sovereign States of this Federal Union, according to the World Almanac for 1938, the assessed valuation on real property was less than one billion dollars....In each of 16 States the total valuation of all property subject to general property tax was less than one billion dollars....The assets of each of those giant corporations are subject to authoritarian control by the corporate managers while...
Library officials here are inclined to scoff at figures published in the World Almanac to the effect that Russia has two which far surpass the size of the world's other giant book-stacks, numbering around seven or eight million each...
Figures on the cinema industry compiled by the current edition of Martin Quigley's annual International Motion Picture Almanac, published this week...