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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first winner of the Harper Novel Prize ($7,500) to cash in on a Pulitzer award ($1,000) as well [TIME, May n]. Both prizes were won some years back by a novel called The Able McLaughlins. I don't recall exactly the author's name, and such is fame...
French Concessions- To help hasten this return, France granted reductions in 19 rates. Duty on grapefruit and automobile chassis was halved. Reductions of smaller and varying percentages were made on sewing-machine heads, canned asparagus, spark plugs, dried prunes, fountain pens, raisins, cash registers and unsweetened pineapple juice (the French obtain their sweetened juice from French West Africa and Guadeloupe). A 75% reduction was made for canned pilchards (sardines), U. S. exports of which in late years have been too negligible for anyone to list. French quotas were enlarged on 44 U. S. products including fresh apples and pears, false...
...Bill's chief provisions were simple and direct: The U. S. Government would supply all the cash necessary for farmers to pay off their mortgages or to buy back their farms from which they have been dispossessed. In return the Government would take from the farmers new mortgages bearing 1½% interest amortized over 47 years. These new mortgages would be used as security for a Federal bond issue bearing 1½% interest. The bonds would be offered to the public but since the public would probably not buy them, the Federal Reserve would be ordered to take them...
Promoter McKay and his partner, Abe Dembinsky, onetime Detroit auctioneer, bought the $2,000,000 Berkey & Gay property last spring for $75,000 in cash and assumption of tax liabilities amounting to $180,000. They sounded out the old dealers who had held Berkey & Gay franchises, found 124 of them ready to give estimates of a year's requirements. Collecting old-time Berkey & Gay officers for the new company, they hired 300 men to open up one plant last autumn, floated $1,600,000 in new stock, started commercial production last April...
...Louisiana has increased thousands of dollars a month. Big U. S. oil companies have been rushing in men and equipment, changing the small town of Rodessa from a sleepy whistle-stop to a booming paradise for real estate swappers. A townsite lot in Rodessa lately sold for $30,000 cash. Population has climbed from 135 to 4,000. Baptist Preacher John W. Wynn of Shreveport came out of retirement to minister to Rodessa's needs, says he has worn out three cars burying and marrying people and has "struck it rich...