Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well to avoid. At the meetings, held by groups with names like "Christian Front" and "Christian Mobilizers," the streets of upper Manhattan and The Bronx resound with cries of "Buy Christian," "Down with the Jews," "Wait till Hitler comes over here." Only the left-wing press has paid much attention to these gatherings, although in recent months they have resulted in more than 250 arrests and some 85 actual and suspended sentences. (Example last week: Patrick Kiernan, 38, reliefer; three months in the workhouse for an anti-Semitic speech-"disorderly conduct" on a Bronx street corner...
Ideological pontiff of the Christian Front, much as he today denies it, is the rabble-rousing baritone of Royal Oak, Mich., Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin. A successful phenomenon of Depression (during which he espoused inflation), a flop in Recovery (in 1936 he backed William Lemke to beat Franklin Roosevelt for President), Radiorator Coughlin began his comeback in Depression II. One Sunday in November last year, he shook his grey-flecked locks and launched into an explanation of why Hitler was renewing his persecutions of the Jews. Naziism, explained Father Coughlin, was a "defense mechanism" against Communism; and Communism was inspired...
...expect to step that up to 50,000, with an eventual top of 70,000 barrels after all seven pumping stations are in. The oil yields 49% gasoline on straight run, double that under cracking processes (ordinary black oil yields no better than 24% gasoline on straight run). How much of it lies hidden in the upper Catatumbo basin nobody knows. The companies have until August 1941 to stake out their final claims. Then half of the Barco reverts to the Colombian Government...
...price of milk is set by the cost of home delivery. If home delivery were eliminated milk could be retailed in stores at 2? to 4? less than at present. Milk at 9? or 10? a quart would be possible, and at this price consumption would increase, much to farmers' profit, for the dairies pay most for milk that is sold in fluid form (i.e., not manufactured into butter, cheese, etc.). FORTUNE explains the conspiracy of circumstances which has prevented this simple solution, has continued to keep the price of fluid milk at uneconomic levels...
...fact that store distribution is much cheaper than home delivery has been established in many practical cases. Examples: Washington, D. C.'s Highland Farms sold milk through a chain of stations at 3? under the established 14? price and netted $75,000 in one year on a $100,000 investment. Safeway Stores' cost of delivering milk (including pasteurization, wages, depreciation, etc.) from farm to store customer through its 18-town Pacific Coast chain came to 3? a quart. Safeway complains that in many communities it would like to sell milk several cents cheaper than the law allows...