New applause is heard for Mickey Mouse, rising high above the general acclaim for him that already rings throughout the earth. The fresh cheering is for Mickey the Big Business Man, the world's super-salesman. He finds work for jobless folk. He lifts corporations out of bankruptcy. Wherever he scampers, here or overseas, the sun of prosperity breaks through the clouds.
Cutting up on the screen in every clime, entertaining a million audiences a year in eighty-eight countries, Mickey Mouse is the bestknown and most-popular international figure of his day. One touch of Mickey makes the whole world grin in a very dark hour. But he does not stop with entertaining.
He rolls up his sleeves and grapples with the world's economic problem. He puts his shoulder to the stalled wheel of trade, and the wheel that won't budge for the statesmen and the international bankers turns for the small and mighty Mickey.
Assisted by faithful Minnie, he pumps a key-winding handcar around a track of tin and pulls a two-million-dollar toy-making concern out of a receivership. Then by himself be restores a famous but limping watch-making company to health – after eight weeks of his treatment the company throws away its crutches, adds 2.700 workers to its payroll and proceeds to sell 2.000.000 watches.
Again, through three lean years he keeps a knitting mill busy making sweathirts with his portrait in color on them – a million shirts a year, and one-third of the population of the mill town assured of three meals a day from the over-time work alone. […]
[note]Page 8 is available via eBay The complete article may also be found in Garry Apgar's book "A Mickey Mouse Reader" (pp. 119-125)[/note]