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...Last week Schenley President Lewis S. Rosenstiel said that his fight was not for Schenley alone, pointed out that virtually every distilling stock has risen since Congress acted, many to new highs. (Schenley's rose the most, from 18½ earlier this year to 31½.) Distress selling of whisky to collect the tax is now over, said Rosenstiel, and there is no reason for "senseless" price wars...
Crook Into Cop. Inside this velvet-lined grab bag there was something for almost everyone. For the neutralist powers of Asia, there was the firm reference to "early withdrawal of foreign troops"-a phrase which, to their distress, was missing from the Norwegian resolution. In the renewal of the Arab League pledges of noninterference in one another's affairs, there was a sop to U.S. and British concern over indirect aggression...
...show in Christ Church brought its own difficulties. The auditorium closed at 5 p.m. while the group prepared for the opening. Most of the theatre people seemed to be used to working at night, through th early hours of the morning, and the Church's hours caused some distress. Many of those working on the show were involved during the day with school work and jobs, so the few hours left in the evening were hurried and hectic. One can imagine the embarrassment caused by the minister appearing quietly in the auditorium while the irritated stage crew wrestled with...
...down models to give customers the impression of lower prices. One reason for the lack of price cuts is that manufacturers' labor costs have continued to rise while productivity has lagged behind. Another reason is that manufacturers have held down inventories so well that there has been little "distress selling" to bring pressure for cuts...
...checks." All through the late 1860s, he had the money, shelled out as much as $241,000 at a session to get the legislation he and his associates wanted. Eventually, the Swepson-Littlefield interests floated their own bonds for railroad lines they never built. They snapped up land at distress sales, bought state-owned cotton at 33?. which they quickly sold on the open market at 47?. Littlefield branched out into Florida and became president of the Jacksonville, Pensacola & Mobile Railroad...