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...personally believe, it is time for the New Deal to taper...
...What concerned the stockmarket most last week was the imminence of a more than seasonal summer slump. Automobile production is bound to taper off as motormakers prepare new models for November showings. Iron Age was pessimistic on steel operations after the July 4 shutdowns, reporting: "Heavy consumer buying from a number of sources is admittedly prompted by fear of labor trouble (see p. 16) as well as by higher third-quarter prices. . . . It cannot be denied that a large proportion of production during June has been borrowed from July and August...
Nine months of the year the northeast trade winds blow across the Gulf of Venezuela into Colombia, where the Andes taper off in three great wrinkles in the earth's crust. As the warm, moist trades are deflected upward by the first mountain range the air is cooled, releasing part of its burden of rain. In the tropical night an almost continuous electrical display can be seen along the mountain peaks, resembling successive flashes of sheet lightning. This phenomenon is called the "Catatumbo Lights," after the Catatumbo River, which rises in Colombia and empties into Venezuela's saltish...
When the year began President Roosevelt and his aides thought $880,000,000 would be enough to taper off the dole. The year's total was approximately $1,322,000,000. Grand dole total since...
...taper, tall enough to burn for 24 hours, flickers in memory of the dead. The pious abstain from food, drink and all other gratifications of material desires, from one sunset until three stars may be seen in the heavens the following night. God is balancing his books for the year. In the home it is well to examine one's soul; in the synagog to chant "Kol Nidre" petitioning forgiveness for vows made and inadvertently unfulfilled...