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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John J. Robinson, President of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, will speak before the Business Economic Council tonight in the Adams House Upper Common Room at 8:15 o'clock. His subject will be "Current Economic Problems...
...intensify the war. Last week stock prices climbed to within striking distance of the 1939 peaks on indications that peace moves had failed." Disillusion grows with the reading of a pamphlet of the New York investment firm of Bonner and Bonner: "We believe that sound steel stocks, purchased around current levels, will prove very profitable--repeating, in many instances, the spectacular performance of the last war.... We have prepared reports on three very attractive steel stocks...
...value of $80,000,000. But its real value was as a symbol of the solvency of the Polish Government, whose reconstituted Cabinet received the treasure in Paris. The Cabinet announced to the world that not an ounce of the gold would go for the Government's current expenses, but all of it would lie in reserve for restoration of a Polish currency after the restoration of a Polish country...
Last week U. S. papers were once more on sale at London newsstands. But wartime regulations and wartime inflation had sent prices soaring. A Sunday edition that cost 10? in Manhattan sold in London for as much as 2/6 (about 50? at current exchange rates). Reason: no alien periodical could enter Great Britain without special permission from the War Office, except in single copies through the mail. And the increase in postage that newsstands had to pay was aggravated by the rising price of the dollar...
...sustain current levels of business activity there is need for greater consumption by the public, as well as increased capital expenditures by business or enlarged exports. . . . Before the war started the business outlook was good, but the speculative price and inventory activity of the past month has endangered this prospect...