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...letter to stockholders proposing liquidation the Mayflower directors argued that a twelve-month tax year was too short a yardstick for this type of investing, observing "The successful realization of its [Mayflower's] objectives requires the averaging of profits and losses over a period of years, and a substantial portion of the profits of one year must be available to absorb losses of other years. Sound business judgment does not permit the annual distribution of all earnings...
Another front-page story, jesting at Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's plans for a New York City municipal power plant, reported that Consolidated Edison was about to turn the tables by founding a "yardstick" city to be "colonized and owned by the company's stockholders, who hope to offset the losses from New York City's competition in the utility field by the saving in taxes resulting from operating their own city...
...South which big-league teams make every spring is to encourage sportswriters to instill into baseball addicts profitably enthusiastic curiosity. Principal topics of early baseball reports are, consequently, players recruited from minor-league teams. Few widely heralded rookies live up to advance promises. There is, however, no yardstick for their future importance except the amount of publicity they receive. Most publicized rookie of the current year is Joseph Di Maggio, 21, outfielder from the San Francisco Seals for whom the New York Yankees exchanged a reputed $75,000 and five players...
Since REA provides for no yardstick competition and many a utility company should profit by the sale of additional electricity in districts where it does not now care to risk its own money on transmission lines, power companies raised little objection to the Norris bill. Only serious kick last week came from New York's Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., who feared that by lending 100% of the cost of such projects the U. S. would risk a lot more money than it would ever get back. Said this onetime Senator scathingly: "I predict that...
...abundance could be drafted and carried out by voluntary agreement of industry, Dr. Ezekiel doubted. That it could be done even if the Government promised to buy up all surplus goods which industry could not sell, he also doubted. He thought his plan possible if the Government set up yardstick factories in every industry to pace private business with competition - possible but politically impractical...