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Greatest of Zion industries is Dr. Voliva's candy factory. Sparkling Beauties, a hard candy in cans, is the best seller. Fig Pie, Liberty, Cherrie Sundae and other 5? bars are good sellers. Some of the output is taken by the Great Atlantic & Pacific stores, some by Independent Grocers' Association. He controls the Zion Bank (capital: $50,000) whose rival is First State Bank, largely held by officials of Marshall Field & Co. who also own Zion City's big lace factory. A publishing plant and a department store also loom large in Voliva-land...
...Zion City is worth $10,000,000, he clearly stated this upon his arrival last week in Manhattan. "Certainly I'm worth $10,000,000," he cried. "I own everything in Zion City-the factories, the land. I made $100,000 last year out of my Zion fig bars alone. I have 26 departments in my department store. Any manager who doesn't make a profit I fire. I am 61 and in the prime of condition. I do the work of twelve men. If you stripped me of all my money tomorrow...
Political ineptitude in Herbert Hoover was one thing the country had been loudly warned about?but in the summer of Prosperity neither leaders nor masses gave a fig for statecraft. The tariff fight first made this deficiency glaringly plain. The President had called for "limited revision" but had miscalculated the greedy demands upon his own party from industrialists for top-notch rates. Their pressure soon put Congress clean...
...Independents' show is not funny. The Independents of 1930, as of all other years, have a distinct penchant for fat nude ladies, bulging, specific nudes in green, orange and red, lolling in intricate positions. There are nearly a hundred such creatures in the show and not a fig leaf among them. Though there may be considerable humor in one livid nude with triangular legs sprawling on a studio chair (the fat ladies who pose for Independent artists seem to have a distinct disinclination to stand up for any length of time), a hun-dred such nudes leave an impression...
...Egyptian, black and gigantic, named Ishak Helmy and a German whose name everyone forgot. All then, male and female, proposed to swim to Dover-and back, said Fattest Myrtle; but the press of France, of England, of the U. S.. of the world, would give neither a fig nor a fish for their story...