Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which we may shudder! We speak as if our civilization was securely based, but there have been other civilizations than ours. Tutankhamen was forgotten until he was dug up. It is very possible that the things protecting our civilization are more slender than they are sometimes thought...
...just flown from New York " he remarked with a grin. "By the way, where am I?" Dubliners told him. "My," said Corrigan, "and I thought it was California all the time...
From Kansas City every month, believers in Unity receivce a "Prosperity Thought" and a "Healing Thought" which they are expected to repeat silently and cogitate for 15 minutes a day. Similarly, the faithful are urged to send for "Prosperity Banks" which to the accompaniment of prayers and recitations, they are expected to fill with $3 during seven weeks, the money being used to send Unity publications to new prospects. They may, likewise, buy Unity phonograph records, one such, the Consecration of the House, being catalogued: "Can you imagine any thing more desirable, were you moving to a new home, than...
Pharaoh of Egypt thought so highly of Joseph for inventing the ever-normal granary plan of crop control that he freed him from jail, made him governor. Although the scheme worked well enough then, it has taken thousands of years, millions of dollars and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace to put it on the grand scale. After four years Secretary Wallace finally succeeded in getting Congress to adopt the plan in the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. Last week his emissary to the International Wheat Conference in London ambitiously proposed putting the granary plan on a world-wide basis...
...operating costs also increased. When Depression II cut production as low as 35% of capacity, the company cut its payroll almost in half, laid off 1,100 of its 3,600 workers, still lost about $250,000 in fiscal 1938's first six months. Most of this loss, thought President Robert Wilson Wolcott, might have been avoided had the company been using natural gas instead of coal and oil. For years Lukens has been wanting to use natural gas; for years it has been just 3¼ miles away from...