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...Richard R. Deupree reported that P. & G. had rolled up record profits. P. & G. reported net profits of $20.2 million in six months v. $17.1 million in the corresponding period a year ago. But P. & G. had also set aside $28.5 million, which came out of profits, as a cushion against a possible loss on inventories. That was double what it set aside for the same purpose for the whole preceding year. In explaining this enormous set-aside, Soapmaker Deupree pointed out that in the 1920-21 recession "the decline in the raw material market actually wiped out the equivalent...
...reminded of the "prodigious religiousness" of 19th Century Britain: "All that business and efficiency in organizing religious services and activities, served, I am sure, as a cushion against the hard impact of the living God. Our churches were like comfortable and well managed religious clubs, in which we felt nicely at home, in which we felt good, in which we even wanted to be better, at least on Sunday evenings when singing particularly lush hymns...
...modern Britain, times have changed: "While our churches are metaphorically if not literally failing into ruin, the disturbing and restoring presence of the living God is becoming an experienced reality amid the ruins. ... In the U.S.A., it seems to me, the cushion of religious efficiency and prosperity is Still doing its comfortable, but fatal, work...
...goat smell. Then one of them turned to the audience, and exclaimed: "Think how the Blessed Virgin had not so much as a bed or sack to protect her, nor fire to warm the icy air, and that the Lord of the world had neither mattress nor cushion on which...
...turn brown when DeGaulle starts sending the opposition to the guillotine. Taber is another one who went through Europe like butter through a tin horn and started blowing off about how content and happy everyone was and how they all had sufficient to eat, whilst he warmed the cushion of a bar stool in an officers' club in Germany. You can't go around telling everybody that John Taber represents some people sitting around a cracker barrel in Oneida, N. Y., and perhaps not even them, and that he doesn't speak for everyone in America. There were too many...