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...lolloping home from a blaze, the Landon campaign special last week retired in leisurely fashion from New England whither it had gone for the Maine election (TIME, Sept. 21). First, motoring to Nashua, N. H. to board his train, Alf Landon stopped at the roadside to buy a 25? basket of apples, saying tactfully, "I have heard so much about your New England apples." Ignorantly he picked a basket of handsome Gravensteins thereby causing natives, who think their Mclntoshes tastier, to raise their eyebrows...
...Reason behind this sudden change in policy was the new Federal Tax on undistributed profits. Though it is listed on the New York Curb Exchange, only a minor part of Yukon Gold is owned by the public. More than 80% of its shares belong to Pacific Tin Corp., a basket which the Brothers Guggenheim wove in 1928 to hold some of their mining properties. At that time, Pacific Tin took over a debt of some $7,000,000 from Yukon Gold and most of the company's subsequent earnings have been used to pay off Pacific. The new profits...
...railroad equipment industry; in 1932 not one U. S. railroad ordered a single steam locomotive from any of the big three U. S. builders. Most of the equipment companies were well-heeled, and most of them, Baldwin included, had already started keeping a few eggs out of the railroad basket by diversifying products. They knew also that year by year more locomotives and rolling stock were becoming obsolete. They hoped for the day when Recovery would come to the railroads and the railroads, in a hurry, would come to them...
...seat, which has been vacant since her husband died last year, moved the relict of Edward Laurence Doheny. As all oil men know, dark-haired, 6-year-old Mrs. Carrie Estelle Betzold Doheny can do business with the best of them. Her company was her husband's personal basket, founded long before the top blew off the Naval oil lease of Elk Hills. Today it is a hodgepodge of the remaining Doheny oil lands in Bakersfield, Long Beach, Ventura, Kettleman Hills, a big interest in Tide Water Associated Oil, a number of California corner lots, an eleven-story building...
...minutes later, in a talk from Neighbor Smith's front porch, President Roosevelt declared: "When Mrs. Moses Smith here presented my wife with that beautiful basket of flowers, I heard my wife say in response to a request, 'Oh. I never make speeches.' I never knew that before." The crowd guffawed. Mrs. Roosevelt looked flustered. Continued the President, with a grin and lift of his eyebrows: "Well, live and learn, live and learn...