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...chain stores all over the U. S. placards such as this appeared last week. Bean promotion appeared in newspaper advertisements, in radio blurbs, on roadside handbills. Some 200,000 well-drilled chain-store workers urged even illiterate housewives to buy jumbos, red kidneys, yellow eyes, chile or limas. This high pressure was no stunt. It was the latest application of a new economic device notably successful in its 15 previous tests. Its enthusiasts describe it as some-thing to put AAA to shame, for it works on the positive principle of reducing surpluses-not by reducing production but by increasing...
Formal dancing from 10 to 2:30 will follow the play with music by Frank McGinley's orchestra. The dance committee, headed by Charles Reder '38, also includes Robert W. Bean '39, Edward G. Dreyfus '40, Philip P. Finn '39, Paul M. Hickox '38, Edward F. Logan '39, and Nirman R. Willian...
Boston, the home of the bean and the cod, is also the home of the U. S. wool market. Until six years ago the Boston wool market was catch-as-catch-can. Buyers went west, bought up raw wool, carried it back to Boston warehouses whence it was sold to mills. In 1931, however, a group of woolmen founded a wool tops futures market under the wing of the New York Cotton Exchange. Lately wool prices have slumped as have most other commodities and last week the wool business, still unused to the complexities of a futures exchange, suddenly began...
Harvard speakers were Phil C. Neal '40, who took the place of Thomas V. Healey '38, originally scheduled to speak, and Robert W. Bean '39. The affirmative debaters were Arthur Collins and John J. Daunt...
Speaking on the negative side of the subject. "Resolved: That this House approves the foreign policy of the present Administration," are Robert W. Bean '39 and Joseph P. Healey...