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...called barometers of business do not register every day. Last week four of them, including several of the most important, made their mid-summer reports, caused businessmen 1) to smile. 2) to nod their heads sagely, 3; to raise their eyebrows in mild surprise, 4) to scratch their heads in serious thought...
Report that caused businessmen to nod sagely was the backlog of unfilled orders of U. S. Steel Corp. Optimists have argued that under the New Deal steel business would continue its steady upswing without the usual midsummer tendency to slacken. Estimates of capacity of steel operations have for three weeks been hinting that steel would ease oft. U. S. Steel's unfilled orders confirmed the fact: at 2,020,000 tons they were off 86,000 tons from the month before, a normal seasonal decline...
...expression "Bon comme le pain." When I heard it, I thought of you. You're good, like bread; you're essential, you know. Mother. The world couldn't get on without people like you.'" Readers of Greenbanks will close the book with a grateful nod, admit that Charles was absolutely right...
...from poetry to the controversies of politics or the detail of university administration. She has never before thrown herself so rashly into the arms of her seducer. There would be cause for grief were it not for the knowledge that Mother Advocate can regain her independence by a nod, and that, being herself, she will want a change again soon...
...loaf like oafs, to nod like clods seemed the best idea to 40 students at Asbury Park High School, N. J. They were so lazy they would not even bother to be bad. Irked immeasurably by Asbury Park's 40 sluggards, Superintendent of Schools Amos E. Kraybill announced last week he would expel them. "They are wasting their time," he cried, "and their teachers' time and the taxpayers' money." Out they would go, he said, legally or illegally. The Board of Education backed Superintendent Kraybill. But soon Superintendent Kraybill changed his mind. He reprieved the 40 laggards...