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...years Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has guaranteed U. S. bank depositors against loss on deposits up to $5,000. Meanwhile, deposits of commercial banks have increased from $39,562,000,000 to $51,355,000,000 and U. S. bankers have sweated trying to make the billions earn money. Stagnant business and stagnant real estate have reduced the wage that a banker's dollars can earn. To keep them from becoming unemployed he has had to hire more & more of them to the Government. Today all banks have 30% of their total deposits on "relief"-hired...
...from gay, however, was the tory of U. S. Steel Corp. Big Steel has run at lower percent of capacity than the independents, has faced bitter price competition in the profitable (to others) Detroit steel market, has had much of its capacity in Pittsburgh and Chicago idle because of stagnant demand for capital goods. Last quarter it made only 18? a share on its preferred stock, grimly paid holders the $1.75 coming to them: the difference, $5,644,368 (nearly half the size of Chrysler's profit for the quarter), came out of a generation of accumulated fat. This...
...Foundation has set aside $100.000 for gambiae control in Brazil, and Foundation workers have already learned all the habits of the enemy. Gambiae are "domesticated insects." They breed prolifically, mature within eight days, frequent stagnant, sunlit puddles, prefer to nip their human victims indoors. In the infested parts of Brazil an anti-gambiae corps backed by the Rockefeller Foundation is being rushed into action...
...various characters make up a strange, stagnant society, in which the main character, Jack Stephens, finds himself. The bigotry of this society is typified by Jack's Aunt Matilda, who rules him with a hickory whip. As a child, Jack is gifted with an imagination and questioning power which disturbs his own aunt and the whole community. He forms all kinds of ideas, many of which are true to him although denounced as lies by his aunt. She teaches him that it is wicked to tell any lies (even though they are true). As an adolescent he is beset...
Aden's rock is so bare that only three clumps of foliage can be seen from the sea. Having not one natural source of drinking water, residents must be satisfied with condensed sea water, with the trickles from artesian wells, one 1,500 feet deep, or with the stagnant liquid in rain-wells which ancient Persians are supposed to have cut in the rocks. Colonials' rum-punches are earthy and their cats red-brown from omnipresent dust. Malaria and other tropical diseases are common. Only industries are manufacture of salt and cigarets (which are sold very cheaply under...