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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Managements throughout the land last week were reporting to their stockholders how earnings had fared during 1932. In many a case it was a question of how little the corporation had lost, in others big profits compared to much bigger ones in 1931. A few concerns were able to boast that, for them, 1932 had been a better year than...
...Human evolution is largely a matter of brain expansion and jaw reduction. It has reached a stage now where we have bigger and possibly better brains than we can use, and smaller and worse jaws than the health of the individual and the preservation of the species demand. Eskimos are almost the only human race in whom dental degeneration is not manifest...
...bound firmly to the U. S. soil. In the House he first (1903) attracted attention by a virulent attack on the late Dr. Harvey Wiley, pure food man who had criticized as "poisonous" a certain corn flour produced in his Illinois district. He worked hard getting his constituents bigger & better pensions, dipped into the pork barrel for public buildings, joined log-rolling expeditions for local waterway developments. He denounced Theodore Roosevelt for the Panama "grab," flayed him as a "mob leader." Loud and tactless, he was set down and snubbed as a radical ranter by conservative Republicans and Democrats alike...
...crowd thought La Barba had won; the judges thought Chocolate. Sure of his featherweight title, spry Champion Chocolate planned a campaign against light weights, where he can find more worthy opponents, bigger & better "gates...
Until last year there hung in the office of John H. Barringer, high-powered general manager and dominant executive of National Cash Register Co., a sign: "BIGGER OR BUST-$100,000,000 sales, $20,000,000 net profits." Last year because the sales were dwindling to $29,000,000 and the profits to nil, and because N. C. R. could no longer pay dividends, high-powered Mr. Barringer resigned. Into his job but not his office went Col. Edward Andrew Deeds, tightlipped, bespectacled chairman of Niles-Bement-Pond Co. (electric machinery), of Pratt & Whitney (airplane motors), of General Sugar Corp...