Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...items of good news for egg-eaters were the complementary results of a single Government action to stabilize the egg market. Responsible for both was Henry Agard Wallace's Surplus Commodities Corp., an AAAffiliate. Most important natural factor in determining the price of eggs is the laying behavior of the hen. In spring, the big egg-laying season, eggs are ordinarily plentiful and cheap. In autumn and winter, hens are less productive, more storage eggs are sold, egg prices rise...
Nearly one-quarter of his statement was devoted to saying that he thought the utilities had been pretty big pigs in the past. "I do not advocate co-operation through any naïve belief that the private companies have a consistent record of behavior...
Acutely aware that the U. S. now expects a greater sense of responsibility from its bankers than was manifest in the 19205, the bankers last week were strictly on good behavior. Revealing that his and President Gordon Rentschler's salaries had been boosted from $75,000 to $100,000, Chairman James Handasyd Perkins of Manhattan's National City Bank warned that "it is the duty of banks to do all in their power to avoid the pitfalls which increased prosperity creates." Cried Har vey Dow Gibson to applauding stockholders in his Manufacturers Trust: "As a nation we seem...
Frantically, for 36 hours last week, Mr. Noyes tried to reach Mrs. Simpson by transatlantic telephone. She would not speak with him. Neither would her host and press buffer, Herman Rogers. This behavior so infuriated her cousin, Lelia Gordon Dickey Noyes, who married Newbold Noyes after divorcing Robert Russell Dickey Jr. (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), that she urged him to let Wallis have it now with both barrels and reveal much not yet revealed. In time's nick Mrs. Simpson be gan exchanging cables with Mr. Noyes who had taxed her by cable with "an act of incredible unfairness...
...American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky spat accusations at the Norwegian Government last week for its "indecent and filthy" behavior in placing the Great Exile & Mme Trotsky on the Norwegian tanker Ruth which, chuffing along toward Mexico, provokingly refused to answer radio questions...