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Cautioning trustbusters that mere bigness did not mean badness, he argued that small business despite certain "nostalgic reminiscences" was not necessarily competitive or humane. "The village grocery store, the village blacksmith, the village grist mill, were all monopolies. . . . Such competition as there has been, curiously enough, came from large-scale enterprise; mail-order houses, and later the chain stores...
More than a year ago Ford workmen appeared in Milan, began throwing a dam across the Saline, turning the Milan Garage and an old grist mill into a factory to manufacture ignition coils and to process soybeans for plastics. Into the factory, shaded by trees on the bank of the little lake made by the dam, last week went 30 Milan villagers. It will give employment eventually to some 30 more. They will spend their spare time on their farms growing their own food. They will work with cheap water power and they are expected to work more quickly, more...
...brothers and two sisters to give him their shares in the establishment, got the bank to extend the mortgage, rigged up a tractor out of a Model T Ford and part of an old truck. Before the year ended, he had 69 acres under cultivation, 1,100 chickens, a grist mill to grind his neighbors' grain. In his first year out of high school, where he had stood fourth in his class, Farmer Bristow cleared $725. In his second, he expects to do twice as well, cut his mortgage in half...
...Deal Days. "Mound Bayou counts among its business, professional and industrial enterprises, two gins, three blacksmith shops, one garage, one tailor, two restaurants, five service stations, two contractors, two doctors, one dentist, one lawyer, one grist mill, one saw mill, two undertakers.† twelve groceries, and meat markets, one drugstore, one 5? & 10? store, one billiard parlor, one barber shop, one gun & locksmith and one newspaper. . . . Our municipal government is stable. Its wisdom is attested by the fact that many needed improvements have been foregone to prevent its citizens from being burdened with debts. The outstanding obligations of the municipality...
After four days, practically all Hindenburg patients had been discharged or transferred from the small New Jersey hospitals. In Dr. Buermann's hospital remained only seven of the original 26. The emergency was over. From now on only the regular grist of motor accidents would come in. But next month Dr. Buermann will renew an old interest upon the arrival of John D. Rockefeller Sr. to whom he is June-to-September personal physician...