Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convinced that this policy [gold buying abroad] will prove ineffective in securing a steady rise in prices. . . . Doubtless, given time, a depreciated dollar or a devalued dollar will yield a higher price level. But this will only come when the desired trade recovery has been realized. Our immediate concern is to extricate ourselves from the Depression, rather than with the course of prices after that happy event...
...trips and genial banquets the birdmen found time to read each other some 60 papers. Dr. James Bond (Philadelphia) lashed out at ''so-called scientists and collectors" who have almost annihilated some species of birds. Dr. Clarence Cottam (U. S. Biological Survey) heightened the birdmen's concern over the decrease in North American waterfowl (see col. 3) by telling them how brant and Canada geese have suffered from the strange disappearance of eel grass during the past three years (TIME...
...With her other inseparable friend. Nancy Cook, a tousle headed. unfeminine. effective woman who often dresses mannishly and smokes cigarets in a holder at the side of her mouth. Mrs. Roosevelt operates Val-Kill shops, an enterprise which manufactures antique reproductions at Hyde Park. This is a non-profit concern. In the past five years Mrs. Roosevelt has picked up some $25,000 from endorsements, radio talks and writing. The Roosevelts maintain a summer place at Campobello. New Brunswick, another country place at Warm Springs, Ga., and their Manhattan town house. Hyde Park belongs to the President's mother...
...gravest concern to Chief Impresario Rufus Dawes last week was the final profit and loss standing of his enterprise. Estimated total amount spent on the show was $32,529,000, but a considerable part of this was spent by exhibitors and concessionaires. When the Fair opened, its total liabilities were $13,202,000 of which $9,750,000 represented a bond issue subscribed by Chicagoans. Three days before closing, revenue from admissions was $8,913,000, from concessions $3,055,000. Expenses were $4,913,000. With adjustments for lesser items net operating profit was $7,454,000. Remaining liabilities...
...Senators had even more trouble following their inquisitor's next revelation, for he led them through the tropical financing of General Theatres Equipment, Inc. Under the swift hand of Harley Lyman Clarke, who had previously garnered a fortune in utility promotion, G. T. E. swelled from a small concern with a promising film projector into an overripe holding company controlling among other things Fox Film Corp. Its decline & fall pulled down the old stock exchange houses of Pynchon & Co. and West & Co. and cost Chase Bank more millions than Mr. Wiggin cares to remember...