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...Bradstreet's wholesale food price index rose another 2? last week to $3.53, highest since 1929. Meanwhile, in an effort to hold down the cost of living, the Department of Agriculture told growers of rice, peanuts and potatoes to plant at least 80% of their acreage allotments this season (for rice: 100%), or take penalty reductions in their benefit payments...
Eighteen important volumes of Americans, filling gaps in the Harvard collections, were presented by Arthur A. Houghton Jr. '29, of Corning, N. Y. Included in the gift were a first editionof Anne Bradstreet's "The Tenth Muse," 1650; a first edition of William Wood's "New Englands Prospect," 1634, the first detailed account of Massachusetts; and the only known copy of one of the earliest books printed by William Bradford in New York, "Some Seasonable Considerations for the good People of Connections...
...years aborning, this Forum gave U. S. business management the first sounding board against which its total voice could be heard (TIME. Sept. 2). For it FORTUNE persuaded some 15,000 executives to form a permanent panel. Invited were : 1 ) presidents of all firms rated AA1 by Dun & Bradstreet, 2) directors of the biggest 750 U. S. corporations (which own 52% of all corporate assets), 3) all businessmen whose salaries indicated clearly that they play an important part in management. The third installment of this Forum was the most detailed self-portrait for which U. S. business opinion...
Unlike its Survey of Public Opinion, FORTUNE'S Forum of Executive Opinion uses a blanketing instead of a sampling technique. The executives whose opinion FORTUNE invites (mail) are a permanent panel of some 15,000-including: 1) presidents of all firms rated AA1 by Dun & Bradstreet; 2) directors of the 750 biggest U. S. corporations (which own some 52% of all corporate assets); 3) all businessmen whose salaries indicate clearly that they play an important part in management...
Trustee No. 3 is former Amherst Economist Willard Thorp. Having won his corporate spurs as Director of Economic Research of New York's credit-rating Dun & Bradstreet, he has been winning his public spurs filling in as general think-man at the Department of Commerce. Trustee Thorp's province will be administrative, analytical...