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...this inflation?" gasped a baffled newshawk...
Significance. Like the baffled newshawk in Mr. Morgenthau's office, businessmen demanded: "Is this inflation?" Economists promptly gave them an answer: "It is not inflation but it is inflationary." Nobody knew exactly how much silver bullion was in the U. S. last week, but it was estimated at around 200,000,000 oz. When the Government takes this over it will tend to boost the world price for silver just as the price of wheat would tend to rise if the Government locked up 200,000,000 bu. Moreover the citizens who last week owned...
Meanwhile, the project of planting a $75,000,000 belt of trees as a means of land reclamation was last week running into considerable ridicule. Near broiling Manhattan, Kans. a farmer drawled to an out-of-town newshawk: "Have you ever been to those small western Kansas county seat towns? If you have you may have noticed the trees about the public buildings. They have been trying for 20 years to raise trees in prepared soil and right now they have not got them much more than ten feet high...
...Pecked a newshawk: "Your Excellency, will Japan ask for naval parity or reduction by the most powerfully armed nations down to the Japanese level...
Said Mrs. Leach last week to Newshawk Pettey: "It was awful, being a child prodigy. I'm happier now. Of course, I would like to have a literary job ? if it paid good money. The trouble with high 'I. Q.' children is that they get through school too early. Nobody wants to hire a 15-year-old girl to do literary work no matter how many scales she has broken in Binet-Simon tests. I had to have a job when I got through college ? and I got one and kept...