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Down, down, down slid the price of newsprint. Mill production was curtailed; papermakers' profits were sliced. (TIME, Aug. 27). Last week, the "biggest" International Paper Co., with mills in Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland (see Foreign News), contracted with Publisher Hearst on the basis of $50 a ton. Friendly, possibly merging Abitibi Power & Paper Co. made a similar deal with the Chicago Daily News. On the Manhattan stock exchange, International Paper common fell 4¼ points; Abitibi hit a new low for the year...
Senator Borah had been the biggest Republican gun up to the entry of Campaigner Hughes and he was second on the list in the effort to save Missouri. He arrived from Texas, where he had talked about Tammany and Prohibition, and made an automobile tour of the lead and zinc mining section near Joplin in the southwestern corner of the State. Prohibition and Prosperity were the subjects of his Joplin speech, but he also took occasion to answer critics who accuse him of abandoning his principles to support Nominee Hoover. Said...
...money we are able to spend! It cuts no ice in an undertaking of this size. This paper is going to reflect the new spirit of England?the business England of today. They may call Britannia a 'jingo weekly' if they like! After all patriotism is the biggest factor in any successful endeavor. The idea is that everything going into Britannia, from machinery to brains will be all British...
...caravans. Promoting regular, efficient, transcontinental air-caravans, the "biggest" National City Co. (Manhattan) and the Pacific National Co. (Seattle) are investing between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 in the Boeing Airplane & Transport Co., new, vigorous, ambitious...
...vast British interests with U. S. enterprise. To newsgatherers, he denied all reports of new I. C. I. deals with Allied Chemical in the U. S., or with the mighty German I. G. Farbenindustrie. Most obvious of remaining possibilities, therefore, was a merger of Mond Nickel with the "biggest" International Nickel Co., owning adjoining properties in the Froude Mines of Ontario...