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...much of the current upward surge is due to the Government's truce with Business no man can say. Nevertheless, Dun & Bradstreet last week found the state of trade and sentiment so strong that they thought it foreshadowed a business revival "without parallel in modern commercial history for the abruptness of its rise and the intensity of its pursuance...
Board's baby was NRA's associate counsel, Blackwell Smith, Manhattan lawyer. Board's oldster was Leon Carroll Marshall, a Johns Hopkins law professor who had served on the National Labor Board and been one of NRA's assistant administrators. President Arthur Dare Whiteside of Dun & Bradstreet had served the Blue Eagle as a division administrator. Sidney Hillman, president of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, had been on the Labor Advisory Board. From the Consumers Advisory Board came Walton Hale Hamilton, professor of political economy. Economic adviser was Leon Henderson of the Russell Sage Foundation...
...troubled businessmen all summer: How much will drought reduce the income of U. S. farmers? As if unable to believe what it had discovered, the Institute tucked its findings into the inside pages of an obscure food pamphlet. Hardly had it been published before the Wall Street Journal and Dun & Bradstreet hastened to confirm the Institute's opinions, and huge, conservative Standard Statistics Co. Inc. rumbled into print with facts and figures. Off the slide rules of all four popped the same startling answer: U. S. farmers will actually have more money to spend this year than last...
...whether it would be a few pennies or a few billion dollars more, there was a difference of opinion. Dun & Bradstreet announced an increase of 20% to 25% over last year, when, according to some estimates, U. S. farmers received $6,383,000,000. Standard Statistics, by comparing the estimated value of this year's crop at current or average prices with the value of last year's crops, fixed the 1934 farm income including bounties and relief payments at $8,250,000.000?up nearly $2,000,000,000 from 1933. The U. S. Government, although it presented different...
...There is little pleasure for a conquering hero to find his homeland turned into a half-Sahara. But even passing through the dull, dun, desiccated lands, he was a hero, for after him came RAIN. Within a few hours of his passing, showers followed along his route through Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota. Within three days the heat broke and rain fell, heavy rain, prolonged rain?from Colorado to Kentucky?sopping the dust, promising to save the remnant of this season's crops...