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...Downhill Skiing" is as concise without being too brief as any book of "How To Do This or That" can be. It is profusely illustrated with beautiful photographs of christianias, stem-turns, snow-plow-turns, and telemarks in their various stages of execution. Otto Lang emphasizes with the same insistence of his senior, Hannes Schneider, that a thorough knowledge of the fundamentals of skiing is essential to maximum pleasure and safety. The fundamentals of the Arlberg technique are the "voriage" or "forward crouch," always keeping the heels on the skis, medium "edge" on turns with emphasis upon body movement...
...threw aside partisanship years ago, supported Al Smith and Roosevelt, thrust his seamed face and jutting jaw and untrammeled thinking into making a fight like that over the purchase of Muscle School. "My College," he says, "had been the farm." As if to prove it, he still drives a plow through Nebraska state every summer...
With the new Federal tax on undistributed corporate earnings, plow-back financing may be very costly to stockholders. One loophole-for the corporation but not the stockholders-is to pay dividends in stock. That is the second use to which C. & O. will put its new preferred, a $2 extra in preferred stock being planned for this year. A $1 extra in cash is also planned but C. & O. will still retain enough of its 1936 earnings by the preferred plan to finance its ordinary improvements...
...after making plows for 23 years for Deere & Co., George Nelson Peek became president of Moline Plow Co. at $100,000 a year, made General Hugh Johnson his chief counsel. As a manufacturer of agricultural machinery, he naturally became deeply interested in farm problems. As a politician, he began agitating for an export subsidy for the U. S. farmer. When Republicans did not solve the farm problem according to his lights, George Peek became a Democrat. As a Democrat he became head of the AAA. As head of the AAA he quarreled with Braintrusters over the agricultural codes, finally resigned...
...between this superman, and the Kansan who, according to New Dealish Washington, doesn't know the difference between international affairs and the plow business. Minnesota, one of the pivotal States, will choose the man who "stared at the carpet, pondered a full five minutes...