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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Servant trouble last week compounded the normal confusions, stinks and noises of the world's biggest hotel. In the vast Chicago stockyards, a strike of C. I. O. stock handlers left 17,000 cattle and calves, 25,000 hogs, 10,000 sheep without service and the Chicago Livestock Exchange without a place to trade. Commission brokers and clerks fed & watered the stranded guests. The Exchange could do nothing for itself but suspend trading on the market where farmers sell (and brokers buy for packers and butchers) 13.1% of the cattle, 17.5% of the hogs, 5.3% of the calves...
Last week on San Francisco's famed Embarcadero were unloaded the biggest and best magazine rotary presses ever to appear on the West Coast. When assembled in the prospective Palo Alto plant of Sunset, the Pacific Monthly, the battery will consist of two 64-page, two-color Cottrell presses and two Cottrell-McKee multicolor presses for four-color work, along with electrotyping, drying and binding equipment. Total cost: $250,000.* All of this will start rolling next month to print a magazine which has had to peg its circulation at around 200,000 since 1930 because there were...
Newest gift of Viscount Nuffield, greatest nonroyal giver in British history, is to be an iron lung, free of charge, for each and every medical institution in the Empire. Part of his tremendous motor car plant, England's biggest (which made the millions he gave to Oxford University), the bullnecked Viscount last week put in commission to make the first 5,000 lungs. Estimated cost: $2,500,000. His inspiration: a movie made by Oxford's anesthetics department which he founded...
...they were speedily disabused. Not only did the Federal Communications Commission last week begin hearings on monopoly in radio but Thurman Arnold's Department of Justice revealed that it was sniffing monopoly spoor in the building-trade industry; and in Chicago Mr. Arnold's bloodhounds treed the biggest monopoly catch since the oil industry went on trial in Madison year ago-the milk and ice cream industry...
...reciprocal pact which Secretary Hull and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King signed three years ago; that pact (along with improving world business) has brought a 42% rise in U. S. exports to Canada. Far more important is the brand-new agreement with Great Britain, already the biggest foreign buyer of U. S. products; in the first half of 1938 about one-sixth of all U. S. exports went to the United Kingdom...