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Harvard Club of Buffalo...
Among those planning parties are the Harvard Clubs of Birmingham, Buffalo, Central Ohio, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Des Moines, Kansas City, Michigan, Milwaukee, Minnesota, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, and Western Pennsylvania...
...October had jumped to 46,063,000. Yet a disconcerting number of the U. S.'s armament and capital-goods makers were still working only eight hours a day. A cheering announcement - particularly for the U. S.'s remaining 8,130,000 unemployed - came from Buffalo: Curtiss-Wright and Boeing agreed to put their plans to work in three shifts a day. The National Industrial Conference Board predicted 4,000,000 new jobs in U. S. industry by next June...
...Buffalo Negro car washer sidled a stranger, asked him point-blank if he wanted $231. Said the Negro: "I'm on the legit, boss. I ain't looking for no racket." Nevertheless he was lured to the downtown office of the National Depository of America. The U. S., explained the Depository, has $30,000,000,000 in idle, i.e. "decirculated," currency. It also has 130,000,000 people. This works out to $231 for each of them. To get yours, all you have to do is pay $1 a month to the National Depository of America. For this...
...last week Frank O'Hearn's eight years seemed to have gone for naught. Buffalo newspapers refused to carry a deposit advertisement. Panicky Buffalo merchants who had accepted National Depository "checks" scrambled to get back goods or cash. The New York State Banking Department Examiners moved in to investigate. While Frank O'Hearn's son and chief helper, Douglas, sought to splice the parting strands of his father's dream, Father Frank was kept from re-entering the U. S. after a weekend in Toronto. Reason: the Better Business Bureau tipped...