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...rights & wrongs of the President's precipitate action on airmail contracts. What his friends had the hardest time explaining away was his wholesale conviction of all airlines without giving any of them a hearing. His motives might have been of the best. He may have been trying to inject a high sense of morals into Government contracts. But his methods found few informed advocates. Many a citizen was content to believe that his President could do no wrong, but there were plenty of others who suspected that his action and his failure to explain it to the country were...
Much given to hyperbole and superlative is the U. S. cosmetics industry. High priests of the beauty business seldom fail to inject into any serious discussion of their industry the magic phrase: "Two Billion Dollars." Last week at a divisional meeting of the American Cosmeticians' Association in Chicago, Thomas Lyle Williams, President of Maybelline Co., was happy to report that the beauty business was running 15% to 20% ahead of last year. That, said Beautician Williams, would mean a $500,000,000 increase in volume for 1934, a grand total for the Industry...
...best banking walls of Wall Street did not fall down last week before the long trumpet-blasts of Jesse Jones. But most of them opened their postern gates and let Mr. Jones come in with the money he was determined to inject into them...
...they, alone of the mok-a-moks, perceived that vital contradiction which imperilled the economic organism in which their own success was hatched. Over seven years ago, when Henry Ford manufactured his ten millionth motor car, and the moguls of efficiency were prostrate in self gratulation, he ventured to inject a single sour note. His remark was commonplace enough, considered in the light of our own days, but in 1926 it had an alien and an unfriendly sound. What would happen when the market had been glutted by his ever more efficient production, when the only people devoid...
...people who spiced their moral restrictions with a good New England imagination. In all the Houses, save Adams and Dunster, for instance, it is necessary to procure such permissions from the Senior Tutor or House Secretary twenty-four hours before the artful female is to inject her touch of potential scandal between sober Georgian walls...