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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time, to the railroads' aid. Ruling that the State could collect no more than 60% of the nine roads' taxes for 1934-35-36, the court ordered a sweeping revision of New Jersey's assessment methods. Until all of the roads' properties were revalued, said the court, the 60% payment rule would hold. Too late to save bankrupt Jersey Central, the order was not too late to apply to the nine roads' 1939 tax bill ($18,261,000), due next month. It may save New Jersey from killing more of the roads which...
Having measured the war boom in this fashion each spoke a word about its soundness. Said the Federal Reserve with reserve: "Unless there is considerable increase in the absorption of goods, the accumulation of inventories now under way might reach significant proportions." The significance of "significant" was left to businessmen's imagination. Said the National City Bank: "Continued building up of inventories, through further forward buying, would prolong the boom but only defer the reckoning...
...innumerable pamphlets and magazine articles on how to bring up children. Press, pulpit and radio also have their say. Result of this ominous babel of contradictory advice is to make many a conscientious modern parent a potential nervous wreck. This week one kindly authority raised a tut-tut. "Parents," said she, "relax...
...everybody in the play. But at 83, G. B. S. is no longer foolproof himself. Despite some brilliant thrusts, he bumbles on far too long, says far too little. More of his ideas are old than new, more of his jokes forced than funny. But what Dr. Johnson said of women preaching is also true of octogenarian play writing: "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done...
...football immortals, was badly hurt. A Brown blocker crashed into him, and his left knee snapped backward so violently the main blood vessel was torn. For six days doctors did what they could, finally told him they would have to amputate his leg just above the knee. "O. K.," said Don Herring, "go ahead." Next day he listened to the play-by-play account of the game in which his teammates nosed out Harvard...