Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which leaves the New Deal well-undefined, but I feel lots better...
Some laid it to talk of dollar devaluation. Others thought it was foreign buying inspired by better news from Spain. Still others credited it to the beginning of new pump-priming. A few thought shorts were spurred to hasty covering by the Stock Exchange decision to publish precise figures of short interest in each stock. Inventors of explanations had full scope for their talents. For last week something hit the Stock Exchange with an elevating power like that of a volcano erupting beneath it. In the entire previous week only 1,700,000 shares had been traded, smallest full week...
...will. In some States price-maintenance laws insure this policy; in others Philip Morris relies on its good dealer relations to maintain the 15? price. This price stability assures dealers their approximate 2? per pack profit margin with Philip Morris and they tend to push it harder, give it better displays, etc. Conversely, with its prices rigid at a high level, Philip Morris has more money per cigaret to spend on tobacco and manufacture. Even so, it probably could not have gone over but for two circumstances at its birth. After years of pushing Melachrinos, Rube and Mac had first...
Though ranked among the Big Four, Old Gold was always a peewee in comparison. Whether the new member of the Big Four can do better, can overtake the 38-45,000,000,000 sales of each of the big three, the tobacco industry waits to see. With June sales totting up to the biggest total of any month in his company's history, President Chalkley went home last week to his one-acre place at Port Washington, Long Island, to enjoy a weekend's sailing in his 23-foot sloop, still trusting in partly the rum, partly...
...Atlanta, Ga. and Dallas, Tex., accounting for less than one percent of the U. S. book business between them, the best-seller was Gwen Bristow's romantic Southern novel, The Handsome Road, although The Importance of Living sold better at the new five-story Cokesbury Book Store in Dallas than it did in Washington and Cleveland stores...