Word: valleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long Road (National Home Library, 25?) is written by Arthur E. Morgan rather as the onetime head of Antioch College than as the chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority. Believing that business has abused its powers, that the reliability of public ownership is unjustly disparaged, he does not damn big business indiscriminately. Says he: "As I worked along through the years, over and over again I found that in practical affairs the ethics of big businessmen were better than the ethics of small businessmen. . . . The difficulty then is . . . that defects of character which in a simple society may be endurable...
...Erie, Ont., buying the stuff for 24? per Ib. in spite of a vigilant campaign by U. S. customs agents against butter-legging. High butter prices did not indicate prosperity for Bossy's boss. On the contrary, drought has parched pastures of New York's great Mohawk Valley, sent feed prices up as much as 70%. Hard as it might be on city folks, it looked as if the dairyman would have to get more for his milk from the processors and distributors. And he needed it bad enough to risk the physical and financial hazards...
...order empire is partly due to personal reasons - he and his family have become confirmed Philadelphians - and partly to the course of empire. The mail order business is by nature best designed for rural trade, and the great rural regions of the U. S. lie 1) in the Mississippi Valley, 2) in the North Central States (Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin) and 3) in the old South. The growth of cities, the building of roads that took farmers to town, the competition of chain stores, led Sears Roebuck in 1925 to begin opening retail stores. By 1929 it had upwards...
...though I walk through the valley of depression, I will fear no evil: for F. D. R. art with me; thy PWA and thy WPA they comfort...
...m.p.h. almost indefinitely. Rancher Charles J. Belden of Pitchfork, Wyo. once chased a herd of antelope 27 miles in 45 minutes in his automobile. Nearly an eighth of the 40,000 pronghorn antelopes in the U. S. roam over Rancher Belden's 200.000 acres in the Meeteetsee Valley. Few years ago they were so near extinction that hunting them was _ forbidden. As a result they have multiplied immensely, eaten more than their share of Rancher Belden's grass. Lately he got permission to sell a few. Last week Rancher Belden's unique sales methods made headlines...