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...into the exploits of the notorious James boys (of St. Joe, not Cambridge) and found enough material for two full-length movies. The mother lode has run out, though, and the golden moments in "I Shot Jesse James" are not worth anywhere near the 85 cents it costs to assay them...
...Manhattan-a town whose citizens assay high for canniness-a leisure-loving group of bums made a delightful discovery last year. They discovered that life and even love on the dole was not such a bad racket. A sharp operator could live in a good hotel room (even when travelers were being turned away) and get generous allowances for restaurant meals simply by talking fast and avoiding employment. And he could sometimes live the good, gay life for months without hindrance by welfare authorities...
What more, then, in the light of these facts, can we do to assay the relative blame of any one group or factor? And to what purpose? For of far more importance is the question whether there is any single corrective or punitive measure to be taken to halt inflation now. Unfortunately, there seems to be no simple answer, no resolvable black or white dilemma, no precedent in the past; only unpleasant alternatives for a general policy which pose troublesome questions. Would ending European aid to check internal inflation be worth the political, economic, and moral risks Could controls...
...likely, though, to get a bang from the scene, as you will from the whole flicker if you assay it not only as a vehicle produced to make a good point, but also to make a lot of money...
Cobalt Comeback. One of the first towns to revive was Ontario's Cobalt. Its fabulous story began in 1903 when Fred La Rose, a railway worker, picked up a piece of ore in an isolated rail cut. He thought it was copper; on assay it showed a phenomenal 13,000 oz. of silver to the ton. Prospectors poured in, and made one jewelry-store strike after another. In four years, 44 mines were opened. By 1916 Cobalt mines had produced 300,000,000 oz. of silver. By 1922 the richest veins had petered out and the price...