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...Fall to Come? Spurred by all these devils, Dun & Bradstreet's index of the wholesale price per pound of 31 staple foods last week hit $7.02, an alltime record (a year ago it was $4.99). Wholesale prices, which had been dragged up by the skyrocketing food prices, were within 7% of the alltime high reached in 1920-and the rise in recent weeks has been far sharper than it was after World War I. Would there be the same drop s? Nobody knew for sure, but there was another flurry of nervous talk of recession and buyers' strikes...
...Members: Manhattan Lawyer Thomas K. Finletter (chairman), Harvard Professor George P. Baker, Denver Post Publisher Palmer Hoyt, Henry Ford II, Arthur D. Whiteside, president of Dun & Bradstreet...
...fact-minded Senator Robert Alphonso Taft wanted to find out what lay behind the talk of recession. That was part of his job as chairman of the joint Senate-House Committee on the Economic Report, which is responsible for recommending policies to maintain high employment. So Taft asked Dun & Bradstreet to gather the opinions of manufacturers, financiers, retailers, economists, labor leaders, etc. Last week, Dun & Bradstreet reported the results of its detailed questionnaire...
...first newspaper in America came out in Boston Sept. 25, 1690, and was slapped down the same day. It was banned by Governor Simon Bradstreet for want of a license, and for an unseemly leer at Louis XIV of France ("If reports be true," gossiped Editor Ben Harris, "[he] used to sleep with the Sons Wife...
There was plenty of action in the smaller rings. The price of hogs went up to an alltime high of $30 a hundredweight, almost double the price of five months ago. Many another commodity edged up enough to shove Dun & Bradstreet's weekly index of wholesale food prices to a record high. Some metals rose too. Lead went up 1? to a new high of 14? a lb.; copper worth only 14 3/8? under OPA ceiling rose to 21? a Ib. Silver, which had sagged to 70? a Ib. in February, now somersaulted...