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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montreal, biggest city in Canada and next to Paris the largest French-speaking city in the world, 2,000,000 (again double the population) awaited them. So did mercurial, bouncy little Mayor Camillien Houde, anti-conscriptionist, Italophile (TIME, Feb. 20), a municipal executive with the verve of Manhattan's Mayor LaGuardia and the political slant of the late Huey Long. At the station, Queen Elizabeth delayed proceedings for a five-minute chat with kilted, Black Watch Captain S. S. T. Cantlie, but from then on Mayor Houde stole the show. He and his pert wife stole the Queen...
Jimmy Lunceford, nationally known orchestra leader, who rose to fame on his versatility in types of music, will play for the Yardlings and their guests from 10 to 3 o'clock in this biggest of events in the Freshman year...
...Condors, Vultees, Stinsons, and generally regarded in aviation as the weakest of the big lines. Last year, by contrast, American was the only transcontinental line to show a profit-$213,000-while its two competitors, United and TWA, lost $997,000 and $773,000 respectively. American is today the biggest and fastest-growing airline in the U. S. In the first four months of 1939 its passenger revenue was 26% over a year...
American's stock, with 290,000 outstanding shares (biggest single owner, Errett Cord: 20,000 shares), is considerably smaller than the average issue admitted to the Big Board. And American, having been listed on the Curb only three years, has neither the profit record nor the "seasoning" that has traditionally been required for Stock Exchange listing. But the exchange was glad to list American as the largest unit of a growing industry. American is glad to have the more active market on the Big Board, for it may be obliged to issue more shares to improve its current weak...
...thing the cotton textile industry has never been accused of is monopolistic tendencies. One of the biggest sources of U. S. payrolls, a weighty factor in the Federal Reserve Board's production index, the cotton textile industry is composed of 1,000 desperately competitive and generally unprofitable mills. About the only check on production the industry knows is the capacity of its warehouses. As long ago as last October the warehouses held over 150,000,000 yards of print cloth, about three times as much 'as was sold that month. But the mills, as is their habit, kept...