Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...copy of this week's TIME [April 24], Radio section, you record the NBC ban on performance of Hold-Tight because the lyrics approximate Harlem's slang for sexual perversion...
...TIME, April 17: "Albanian oil is at best of second-rate importance, probably not capable of supplying more than a tenth of Italy's peacetime needs...
...yesterday's statement, Dean Hanford said he shared Dean Leighton's opinions expressed in the CRIMSON of April 27. The dean continued, "I am in thorough agreement with the general opinion expressed in the editorials that outside tutoring at Har- ing the pre-examination panic and rush to tutoring schools. Reviews are so important in the understanding of any course as a whole that they should be offered by the instructors themselves
...were Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward. Both mail-order houses now obtain 50 to 60% of their sales as department stores. Although department store sales in general are running barely ahead of last year, chain groceries about 5% higher, Sears and Montgomery Ward were 20% ahead of 1938 in April. On this increase in volume, Sears' Chairman Robert E. Wood (who plays along with the New Deal) estimates his company will more than double the $7,000,000 profits earned in the 1938 first quarter; Montgomery Ward's Chairman Sewell L. Avery (who will have nothing...
...January 6 a bale of silk (132¼ Ibs.) in Japan cost 840 yen ($229). On March 2 the price hit 1,080 and the Japanese Government stepped in and stopped trading for a few days. Nonetheless, the price climbed to 1,195 yen ($325) on April 19, stood last week at 1,160. When this 40% price rise began, the small group of U. S. branded hosiery makers (such as Gotham and Phoenix) which control their resale prices had already announced their spring prices. For fear that unbranded rivals would undercut them, they did not raise prices and continued...