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...export it. They devalued their currencies (to sell cheaper abroad and make imports dearer), upped their tariffs, set up import quotas. In short, they tried to dump their unemployment and deflation on one another. This policy failed dismally because everybody devalued. Instead of exporting deflation, everybody got poorer...
...Kentucky's Dean, Sarah lived with her mother and two sisters on a 250-acre farm near the campus, raised a tobacco crop of her own as a sideline. Dressed in her shabbiest farm clothes ("I figured the poorer I looked, the better price I'd get"), she drove the crop to market in the farm truck, sold her high-quality tobacco at twice the price of ordinary grades...
...whose bald head shows scars of crusted ringworm suffered during his youth Dr. Ronchese suspects of being a European, because that type of ringworm is prevalent among Europe's poorer classes but not in the U.S. A man with a wartlike scar of Aleppo or Jericho boil is probably an Armenian, because the disease rarely occurs outside of Asia Minor and is most common in Armenia. An old man scarred by bites of the body louse (vagabond's disease) is probably a tramp...
...sports had their answer Saturday, and at came from some of the loudest of the clamorers, the athletes themselves. While Deerfield Academy was trouncing the home team on Soldiers Field to the one of 26 to 2, the Crimson was putting on an exhibition of poor playing and even poorer sportsmanship...
...poorer Randy Phillips who spurred his subway car ever onward Saturday last. The "Dolph", once of Hollywood, has made a standing date at one of Beantown's favorite nightspots--the Touraine Bar. How naive must have been the faces of Bill "The Bradford" Shirey, Don "Raymore Playmore" Royce and Rod "Scollay Square" Rolain as this threesome was asked to desert their regular haunts for a well-spent Saturday in Wellesley...