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Said Labor: ". . . If this is the best our captains of industry can do they are morally and intellectually bankrupt and it is time to look for guidance elsewhere. . . . This depression ... is a panic of plenty. There is too much of everything except buying power. There is so much wheat that people are hungry. So much cotton that folks are half naked. So much housing that in Chicago women are sleeping in parks. . . . Too much of the national income goes into the hands of a few. ... A handful of men with their spare cash could buy the output...
Universal's menagerie of 40 animals includes a 52-year-old alligator named Little Joe (after the number four in dice games) because he so frequently comes up, for food. Little Joe, procured from a bankrupt Florida circus, has been incarcerated at Universal City ever since it was built, 17 years ago. Also from a Florida circus came Chimpanzee Joe Martin. Innocent, obedient, clever, Joe Martin performed in Tarzan pictures, was sold back to a circus seven years ago when he became unmanageable, began to annoy other Universal monkeys. He may be repurchased to act in The Murders...
...proclaimed Cotton King, the South was producing about 4,300,000 bales per year.* In 40 years the production had more than doubled. In 1914 the 15 cotton States of the Union brought forth an all-time record crop of 16,000,000 bales?and the South almost went bankrupt when the outbreak of the War blocked export. In 1892 Boll Weevil had crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico. The spreading infestation over-took expanding cotton production after 1914, reduced the 1921 crop to the smallest (8,000,000 bales) in a quarter-century. But planters learned how to fight...
Producers Schwab & Mandel have assembled a notable troupe of beauteous girls for Free For All. Among them: Lilian Bond, whom Oscar's uncle Arthur Hammerstein put in Luana last year before he went bankrupt (TIME, April 6); Vera Marsh of America's Sweetheart; pert Dancer Dorris Groday; Jeanette Loff. late of Hollywood (The King Of Jazz); Dorothy Knapp. a "Most Beautiful Woman In The World" for Earl Carroll and Flor- enz Ziegfeld; lovely Tamara (The Wunder...
...Onto the auction block in Manhattan last week went a batch of trade journals. A bidder might take all or any part of the lot-the 17 units of bankrupt National Trade Journals, Inc. When the last hammerblow had fallen, the properties were in the following hands: Publisher Howard Myers bought back his Architectural Forum, aristocratic journal published in two semi-annual volumes with a yearly subscription price of $20; Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. of.Chicago (classified telephone directories) bought National Cleaner & Dyer; Industrial Press (publishers of Machinery) bought Heating & Ventilating; Interior Architecture & Decoration bought Good Furniture & Decoration; a newly organized...