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...priming the pump: "Consumer buying power is the milk in the coconut of all business...
...Deal launched a $4,000,000,000 spending program calculated to raise consumers' buying power. It did, but a year later recession again rears its ugly head, and this time the Administration, in spite of what the President said May 22 about the milk and the coconut (see p. 15), is tempted to try something else, is toying with the idea of spending for capital goods...
...Congress provincial governments have outlawed the distillation, sale and consumption of liquor in numerous small experimental areas. In other places bars and liquor shops have been closed on pay days, thus making it more likely that the Hindu workman will get home with his salary before spending it on coconut toddy, a sort of ancient moonshine which is his favorite cheap drink...
...June, on Blue Mountain and Morant Estates in the Parish of St. Thomas, the coconut pickers were on strike for a week, then went back to work at their old rate. The week before the strike they did twice their usual work so that they would lose nothing by a week of rest...
...laboratory is Physicist Harvey Brace Lemon of the University of Chicago. A onetime student of the late great Albert Abraham Michelson, now a bustling, stout, pink-faced professor of 54, Lemon tracked down the cause of bands in comet tails, designed the spectrophotometer which bears his name, adapted coconut shell charcoal for gas masks during the War. President Hutchins told him off to design a survey course in physical science which would attract rather than repel students majoring in other fields. Believing that most survey courses were "not worth the powder to blow them to hell," Dr. Lemon authored...