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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high as 1,182,756, is now about 500,000. More than $545,000,000 has been paid to beneficiaries of deceased members, some $25,000,000 to living members. Insurance now in force is $631,802,225. About 90% of this has been switched from the assessment type to the legal reserve basis of the old-line insurance companies...
...given to the sales clerk, who notes on the letter the amount of each purchase, the customer being able to buy up to the limit of the letter but no more. Also widely used are "budget plans," varying in detail but all alike on one prime point-any type of merchandise can be bought on credit, paid for in installments...
Both in terms of the contract and the type of goods sold, however, installment selling in the 1930's differs from that of the 1920's. Reared to respectability by the automobile, the installment plan before Depression had spread to refrigerators, pianos, radios, oil burners and similar relatively durable goods. It had always been possible to buy a diamond solitaire, or a suite of overstuffed furniture or an encyclopedia on a deferred payment plan, but installment selling as a major factor in U. S. economics developed after the War. Even in those exciting days a substantial down payment...
Russia's planes are a curious blend of adaptation from abroad and original development at home. The planes that flew to the Pole were of the ANT6 four-motored bomber type. Lumbering, ungraceful things with highly tapered wings and bicycle landing gear which does not retract, they have little merit beyond big payloads. Instead of developing practical improvements, Russia's designers tend to go head-over-crupper for such fantastic devices as the P-5 biplanes whose fat lower wings open up to provide coffin-like niches in which 14 soldiers can snuggle. Most successful of Russia...
...glut in short order. When last year's Drought flooded the market with cattle that could no longer be fed, the chains managed to increase beef sales 34% in the middle of summer, a poor beef season. The same thing was done with turkeys last autumn. From this type of practical relief the chain stores have gained most of their new-found farmer support. Asserting that the big chains can do more in such emergencies than the Government, President Park declares...