Word: ares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Each year there are 100,000 new jobs for truck drivers.
¶ Biggest factor in getting and keeping a job is oomph: at least half of the men & women who lose jobs (except in Depression layoffs) are fired for maladjusted personalities.
Irwin Hoffman's brothers are mining engineers. Irwin Hoffman himself is a solid, soft-voiced artist who goes down a mine shaft almost as often as they do. Once there, he sits cramped in a lantern-lighted hole full of the din of drilling, sketches everything he sees. Mining...
Any further drastic price rise is likely to be dampened by the 230,000,000 bushels carried over from the last crop year (of which approximately 175,000,000 bushels are in hock to the U. S. Government), but the chances of wheat staying around $1 were helped by news...
¶ a yard); when cotton is rising, textile fabricators like to buy for future use in hope of inventory profits. Last week's cotton buying was paralleled by a rush to buy cotton grey goods: sales, 100,000,000 yards, up 80,000,000. This piling up of inventories...