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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only three mentioned by name were Chrysler, General Motors and Pullman) had inventories totaling $232,456,000. On Sept. 30, 1937 the same 50 had inventories of $285,606,000. In short, these concerns had more goods on hand when the current depression began than they did shortly after th crash in 1929. These figures were presented to President Roosevelt last week as a refutation of the contention of businessmen that fear of New Deal oppression caused the present slump. When a corporation is uncertain about the future, the argument ran, it does not stock up heavily with materials...
...spit an' image o' him," reported from Kentucky. . . . And, finally, in Uncle Remus, in "Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last," Joel Chandler Harris (the distinguished father, I assume, of our present correspondent) writes: "He had a wife en th'ee chilluns ole Br'er Tarrypin did, en dey wuz all de ve'y spit en image er Je ole man." It will be noted that Mr. Harris indicated the omission of the sound r in very with an apostrophe (as in the first example cited in this paragraph), but he does not indicate...
...mighty fine o' yer ter let yer readers know about our "Former Apple Butter Stirrers' Society Fer The Purpose Of Promulgatin, Promotin and Perpetuatin Memories Of Apple Butter Stirrin Days." And th' former apple butter stirrers thet's rote in 're mighty grateful...
Some o' 'em 're still stirrin apple butter. But most o' us ain't done no stirrin since Aunt Tillie cought Uncle Jake sneakin in fer a second look at Little Egypt at th' Chicago World's Fair BSR (Before Sally Rand...
Course nearly all o' us wood trade our false teeth an hot water bottles fer some o' th' good old apple butter agin. An if yer kin find some feller thet'll guarantee ter make as good apple butter as we use ter stir, all he's got ter do is tell us about it in TIME (an he woodn't need a big ad), and his fortune's made. Fer most all o' us wood be reglar customers...