Word: reaping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Thomas and the monetary diehards are having it back and forth with a fine gusto about whether the Treasury shall reap the four billion or so of reward if the dollar is devalued. The best argument that the outraged sound money men seem able to muster is the moral one that no government should appropriate something for nothing in this cavalier fashion. Whereas Senator Thomas and the rest fight for devaluation and confiscation of the gold profit as if the four billion dollars were essential to the financing of the recovery program...
...censors by a thin veneer of hypocritical "educational" advice to young girls and harassed mothers. The public, needless to say, is always disappointed, and might better get its vicarious sexual satisfaction from a Mae West opus; but the suckers continue to pack the theatres, and the producers continue to reap a golden harvest...
What the leaders really mean, and should say, for it is indictment enough, is that the economy of depression shows forth the hollowness of the ideal known as free competition. In prosperous times, the efficient farmer is willing to reap his reward in a greater profit margin, and will tolerate the selfgratulatory gabble of his inferiors so long as his own sales volume is unimpaired. But when price becomes a sharp issue, he is wont to maintain his volume at their expense, which is what is meant by free competition. Immediately the hinds call treason, puncture the tires...
...bailiff, police charged Lady Evelyn and 36 farmers with "unlawful assembly." In Castle Hedingham Court, she protested that she had been trying to stop the riot. With the whole countryside smoldering indignation, the court adjourned the case until after harvest time, enjoined the farmers to go out and reap what they have sown-after which attempts will undoubtedly begin to collect a tithe of the harvest. In all about ?3,000,000 ($14,580,000 at par) are collected annually in tithes, two-thirds by that hoary institution called Queen Anne's Bounty. Its Chairman George Middleton...
...could have bought National Distillers last spring for $17 and sold it last week for $117; of how Canadian Industrial Alcohol jumped from $2.50 to $24. These were facts. But thicker flew the rumors of how this company or that planned to enter the whiskey business, reap fat profits from the fact that Americans are proverbially a whiskey-drinking people. And the stockmarket soared to New Deal highs. Standard Brands lately announced that it might make gin as of old and its stock was given a whirl. Commercial Solvents and U. S. Industrial Alcohol are definitely entering the whiskey business...