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...Plow it under!" advised Colonel Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News last week as the cheesemaking farmers of Green County gathered at tiny (pop. 644) Monticello, Wis. to do something about their 1,000,000-lb. limburger surplus, which was threatening to knock the bottom out of the limburger market (now 15? per lb.). Source of three-fourths of the nation's annual 11,000,000-lb. of limburger supply, Green County's farmers did not take the News's suggestion. Instead they declared a holiday. For 46 days until May 1 no new limburger will...
...this week the U. S. reading public was told that, since it had approved and for ten years supported its first weekly newsmagazine, TIME, now it should have another, an improvement on the original. "We believe there is a field unplowed," said the editors, "and we are sharpening another plow. . . . News-Week's ample treasury is the sum total of more than 120 individual investments, made by men and women who believe that thousands of Americans want and need the particular kind of a newsmagazine that News-Week...
...business, they had best put it in charge of an experienced publisher. Thus it was that the two groups found themselves this week negotiating a deal with astute President William Bishop Warner of The McCall Co. whereby they would put up more money, he would melt together the stalled plow and the superfluous hammer, publish the result under McCall management...
...graded undistributed profits tax. Fortnight ago. the I. C. C. showed what it thought of this phase of the New Deal's tax philosophy when it permitted Greyhound Corp. (busses) to issue a preferred stock dividend, on which holders will have to pay income tax. so as to plow back 1936 earnings without paying a fancy tax penalty. Last week in its report to Congress, I. C. C. amplified its position in the matter...
...first had a great deal to do with pianos filled with carcasses of dead donkeys. In the latter the great seduction scene to which the whole film rises is symbolized by a view of a bedroom window through which are thrown a blazing pine tree, an enormous plow, an Archbishop, a giraffe and a cloud of feathers...