What Is A Boy and What Is A Girl Essays Read
Editor Alan Beek of The Pilot's Log produced essays What Is A Boy and What Is A Girl in June 1919. Readers praised the pair as heart warming and rare in the atomic age, prompting companion pieces that the publishers deem worth rereading.
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Alan Beek
Pilot’s Log
New England Mutual Life Insurance Company
Beek
The Wilson House of the Month Highlights Flexible Design
The Wilson displays maximum multiuse living spaces with a dining area that doubles with the living room and a terrace with a TV view. Efficient circulation lets one move from kitchen to bath without furniture detours and from entry to bedrooms without crossing the lounge. Ample storage above the garage and an FHA compliant plan with National Adequate Wiring Bureau approval.
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Wilson
Bath
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National Adequate Wiring Bureau
NO PARADISE Retailers to meet in New York on price and wage policy
An association with over 7,000 stores will hold its annual meeting in New York next January. Attendance is expected to exceed past meetings as retailers debate government price and wage controls. The piece argues costs rise faster than prices and warns against bureaucratic controls and OPS profit limits harming the economy.
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New York
Congress
America
Accurate Prophecy on the Federal Government’s Power
The Freeman reprints a 1878 Senate remark by Senator Benjamin Harvey Hill warning that the Federal Government risks tyranny if it wields ungranted powers. The piece argues industrial monopolies were checked, but government growth and cost rise threaten liberties and state rights, with tyranny as the ultimate risk.
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The
Freeman Magazine
Benjamin Harvey Hill
U. S. Senate
Senator Hill
Taxes surpass food in cost to American households
The Grocery Manufacturers of America president warns taxes now cost more than food for Americans. 1940 food spending reached 17.1 billion with 12.7 billion in taxes. last year food 52.5 billion and taxes 57.0 billion. He cites direct and indirect taxes, calls for strict nonessential spending cuts to avert ruinous taxation.
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Grocery Manufacturers of America
Washington
Is It Bad to Be an Oil Company or Rich
Ernestine Adams argues against the view that oil companies and profits are immoral. The letter notes oil’s wartime and peacetime contributions, tax payments, employment, and reinvestment, citing a $32 billion industry footprint and $12 billion invested since World War II to ensure consumer access. It questions why wealth and scale should be seen as sinful given high US consumption and low prices.
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Ernestine Adams
Petroleum Engineer
U. S
Still Nonessential Seaway Bill Faces Rebuttal In Committee
Testimony before the House Public Works Committee reiterates that the St Lawrence Waterway and Power Project is nonessential. Critics warn it would be a vast, unjustified expense vulnerable to attack, with limited transport value and high costs amid material shortages and taxpayer burden.
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House Public Works Committee
St. Lawrence Waterway
What Is A Boy
A humorous ode to boys describing their boundless energy and quirks from early morning to night. It portrays a boy as Truth with dirt, Beauty with a cut finger, and Hope with a frog, noting parents, sisters, and adults’ mixed reactions while highlighting a boy’s irresistible charm and two magic words “Hi Dad.”
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Paul Bunyan
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