Word: distresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Consolidated's operations in the first quarter (figures not made public). Since last year when the Government convicted a batch of the major oil companies under the Sherman Act, fear of further anti-trust suits has kept oilmen from attempting to do anything about relieving the market of distress gasoline stocks, which have reached an unwieldy total. Refiners now get an average of .7 cents a gallon less than they did last year. Crude production, however, has been kept within reasonable bounds by State proration laws and the official price is comparatively high. Consequently, the spread between the prices...
...aerial for his 600-watt transmitter, WiBDC. In a mile-a-minute gale, he slung a new aerial, by 7 p. m. had his transmitter working on five watts of dry-cell power. He sat down by kerosene lamplight, began calling the amateur's land signal of distress, QRR. Soon W2CQD at Roselle, N. J., 165 miles away, picked him up, turned him over to nearer WiSZ at West Hartford, Conn...
...estate tax collections (still the public schools' chief source of support) increased the number of unschooled children. The nation's public education system rallied from Depression three years ago, but this year was struck again by the backlash of the 1937 Recession. By last week so many distress signals flew over U. S. schoolhouses that educators were thoroughly alarmed...
...keep distress selling of the estimated $2,000,000,000 to $4,000,000,000 worth of Anglo-French-owned U. S. securities from cracking the market, already depressed by widespread bearishness on domestic business prospects, obvious aids would be: 1) to relax margin requirements to protect investors; 2) to further ease credit through the Federal Reserve; 3) to put a floor under Exchange prices by setting a limit on each day's fluctuation, such as the Government now does in the wheat market. One precaution Administration leaders took last week was to prod Congress into extending until...
...Forbid NLRB to order set aside an existing contract with one union in favor of another merely because the membership has shifted unions (as has sometimes happened to the Federation's distress...