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	<title>The Roaring Twenties Blog &#187; Economics</title>
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	<description>A Snapshot of Life in the 1920's</description>
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		<title>Introduction of 40 Hour Working Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THAT man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow is a dictum of the Scriptures that has been pretty well abolished in America, where, in the main, he now acquires, not bread, but canned goods and package foods, by the oil on a machine. Mr. Thomas A. Edison is on record as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War Bread in Peace Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BELGIUM and France might have been encouraged by the good news from
the nutrition chemists at Williamstown about the prospect of food from the air and sun, and also by the black case they made out against white bread. For the Belgian and French people have gone back on the war basis of &#8220;black bread&#8221; as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street 1929 Part 12</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another and fascinating phenomenon has arisen on the American scene. I refer to the investment trusts. People too timid to risk their own judgment and money in the stock market can now buy brains to invest and speculate for them. At this writing there are more than 450 investment trusts in the market, with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street 1929 Part 11</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The desire to make money is not limited to minds trained in making it. The easier money can be made, and the more quickly, the better it attracts the public. Just now the most fabulous money-making machine in the country seems to be the stock market; so the public has enthusiastically gone shopping there.
Savings banks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street 1929 Part 10</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the beginning of 1929, the United Press has thrice revamped its financial news system in quest of greater speed. Two years ago, a single Morse wire, with a capacity of thirty words a minute, provided member newspapers with all the financial news they wanted. Most of them wanted only Curb and bond reports. Local [...]]]></description>
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