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That the stockmarket should react unfavorably to indications of continued pump-priming was proof of business' confusion. Heretofore, such pump-priming talk has boomed the market, and even Wall Street admits that sharp curtailing of government largess would toboggan stock prices. Last week's pessimism apparently stemmed from the realization that new deficits may mean new taxes. But this was one matter on which Congress gave signs of having its back...
...pound). Bran is "a material unsuited for human consumption and should be relegated to the barn. . . ." Often it proves harmful, sometimes obstructs the large and small intestines. A couple of cups of coffee a day are helpful, for coffee contains a drug, caffeol, which has laxative properties. Some persons react to a few glasses of water in the morning when their bowels are on "trigger edge...
Premier-General. How the hard, resolute Czech people would react in a crisis was shrewdly guessed by Psychologist Dr. Benes, and with perfect confidence he left it to them to mill spontaneously through the streets of Prague in monster demonstrations which finally reached 250,000, shouting and screaming hour after hour "Give us arms! We want to fight! Don't yield a centimeter! Give us Syrovy...
...recent Macmillan survey, western book sellers picked Reader's Guide broadcasts as most influential swayer of readers' habits. Book sales react automatically to Jackson's by no means low-brow judgments. He damned Hervey Allen's Action at Aquila, Charles Morgan's Sparkenbroke and Lloyd Douglas' Home for Christmas out of West Coast best-seller lists while they were doing well throughout the rest of the country. His one conspicuous failure was Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. A full broadcast of dispraise was unavailing against Californian determination...
There was a difference of opinion concerning Boston audiences. Miss Holm seemed to think that Boston audiences did not react very heartily to risque lines and she termed Bostonians "rather slow." Miss Buchanan, who takes the lead said that she was agreeably surprised how warm the audiences in the Hub were. "The audiences in San Francisco were the most appreciative," she added...