Word: ops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Op-Upton Sinclair-Farrar & Rinehart...
Although few U. S. readers are likely to take Co-Op as much more than an ingenious tract, it plainly reveals the source of Sinclair's international reputation. With a gift for simplifying complex political questions, he writes in a field that interests politically-conscious Europeans, and one which few U. S. novelists have touched, Bitterly resenting the neglect of his achievements by serious U. S. critics, Upton Sinclair usually counters by mentioning the wide circulation of his books abroad. The Jungle is the most widely-read U. S. novel since Uncle Tom's Cabin. Oil has been...
Maxwell House Showboat is noteworthy in the new season's radio alignment chiefly because, beginning next fortnight, it will be playing on N. B. C. "op-posite" the redoubtable Major Edward Bowes, still Radio's No. i attraction with his famed Amateur Night.- Under the sponsorship of Walter P. Chrysler (TlME, June 22), Major Bowes will move his show from Sunday to Thursday nights, from N. B. C. to C. B. S. There the bland master of ceremonies of the amateur hour will compete for listeners with a "Show-boat" captained by Yale's Singer Lancelot ("Lanny...
...example: John Smith has a 700-lb. heifer ready for market. If shipped to the stockyards, it would net John about $30. Instead, he takes it into the co-op and has it butchered at a cost of $7. It provides him with about 330 lb. of prime beef which the butcher cuts into convenient-sized steaks, chops and roasts. These are frozen quickly and put for storage in John's locker. The same meat, bought over the counter, would cost him $90; his total cost now is $40, including locker rent. If John Smith is expecting a threshing...
Profitless Oil. Unlike Britain, the U. S. has only a few communities cooperatively self-contained, notably Maynard, Mass., where co-ops can furnish nearly all consumer needs. There are two small co-op mail-order houses. Co-operation has been adapted to rural telephones, power plants, personal loans (credit unions), groceries, trucking, insurance, undertaking. But except for farm supplies the most conspicuous success has been with oil & gas. Co-op gas stations have multiplied two-thousand-fold since the first was founded in Cottonwood, Minn...