Dumbells of Business

"Dumbells of Business" by Louis Custer Martin Reed portrays business sketches with the characters that are drawn from the daily life of the average American business organization where men are somehow sweating through to success against the cordovan inertia of the Dumbells of Business… Excerpt: «The Plant Cured of Mossbackitis Out among the gnarled oaks of Squirrel Cove there buzzed a busy manufacturing plant. It had been established since Time wore a bib, and, as far back as History could recall, had been handed down from Whiskers to Whiskers without a break. The same old Superintendent with his chew of Fine Cut tucked away in a back-cavity, was always on hand each generation to bury the father and drill the son into the mysteries of Production and Distribution. Old Faithful used to love to take off his beaver cap and stroke the top of his glazed Summit while he told some eager visitor all about the industrial heirloom and his long and watchful connection with it.»