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...illustrate this statement, he told a story about Sam, the colored man in Mississippi who came to see his white boss, Mr. Charlie. He said, "Mr. Charlie, have you hoard about the 'new Negro'? Well, I'm one. And from now on it won't be Mr. Charlie, but just Charlie...
...surplus. The prices of some grains might drop to rather low levels, but there would always be someone to buy the commodities. For example, food processing companies, hog raisers, and whiskey manufacturers could absorb more. Indeed, in a system free from vagarious government supports private speculators would undoubtedly hoard cheap grain in years of exceptional abundance, contributing to price stability. When manufacturers are confronted with a glutted inventory of a particular product, they must either cut prices, shift to production of another product, or eventually go out of business. Clearly, but for the government, these would be the farmers' alternatives...
...More probably, they originated in northern China and were gradually driven south. About 5,000,000 Meos are scattered through Southeast Asia, perhaps 250,000 of them in Laos. They hold a virtual monopoly on the growing of opium and hence are among the more affluent Laotians. They hoard their wealth in massive silver necklaces, worn by all Meo women. Unlike the Buddhist Lao, the Meos have no qualms about killing...
...maiden speech as new chairman of the Advertising Federation of America with a proposal that the word "capitalism" be abandoned. Said he: "It would be just as unfair to call today's business operation 'capitalism' as it would be to call squirrels capitalists because they hoard nuts for the winter . . . The word describes only a part of our industrial incentive system-a part that has shrunk to insignificance in modern years...
...authors expected. But last week, to the surprise of Carroll Kearns, the committee called for hearings on the Fort Knox resolution, solemnly considered such problems as the advisability of sawing each bar of bullion in half, just to make sure there were no gold-plated bricks in the national hoard...