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...filed and the public's annual guessing game got under way. Majority guess: Although Ford produced 1,314,369 cars & trucks (10% more than in 1936), profit & loss surplus increased only $5,419,264 (72% less than the 1936 increase); this, offset by a sharp $8,514,335 dip in reserves, indicated that in 1937 Ford Motor Co. (not considering possible dividend payments) lost $3,095,071, compared to a $26,426,698 profit the year before...
...festival wound up with an afternoon parade and a mammoth bonfire at a nearby river. To this last flocked natives and visitors alike, armed to the ears with butterfly nets, bird cages, sieves, kitchen strainers, washtubs and burlap bags, for the season's wildest smelt-dip...
...dapplings of disaster. The damage was small that year, but it was enough to make the Kilmartins draw in their belts a little. Potatoes (dug fresh from the ground in summer, stored in fern-lined earthen pits through the winter; served boiled, with a bowlful of salt water to dip them in, for flavor) were their only food...
Meantime the Congressional delegation had filed by Joe Robinson's bier in the State Capitol, lunched at the Little Rock Country Club where some of them took a dip nude in the pool (the few ladies in the building having been requested not to look out of the rear windows) before attending the burial. That evening the impromptu political caucus returned to its train and started back to Washington where this week a majority leader was to be chosen. One important new delegate was present, Vice President John Nance Garner who had closed his month's vacation...
...stock below $50 a share. Until 1931 Western Union bulls used to make great play with this remark, which indeed held true for many a lifetime ended before that year. Since then there have been frequent opportunities to buy Western Union at prices well below $50. Its first 1937 dip below that price occurred fortnight ago, when, after dropping steadily from a year's high of $83.50, Western Union slid to $49.50. Last week it broke...