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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buffalo citizens were offering as much as $1.50 for a pound of butter last week. Storekeepers limited purchases of eggs to a half-dozen. Pork was hard to get at any price. Reason: 1,000 A. F. of L. truck drivers and warehousemen struck for the closed shop, affecting every store in the city except Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. At the same time 1,300 C. I. O. packing house workers struck for recognition, a preferential shop, shorter hours, higher wages. Nearby farmers did a rushing roadside business. By week's end the truck & warehouse strike had been...
Last week a half-dozen stock issues were publicly offered, nearly as many more announced. Some merely represented the marketing of blocks of stock closely held, a type of deal which will tend to multiply as prosperity increases. An example of this kind of deal was last week's offering of 25,000 common shares of Chicago Rivet & Machine Co., a tight little $1,000,000 concern which dutifully recorded in its registration statement that it was one of the respondents in anti-trust proceedings against members of the Institute of Tubular Split & Outside Pronged Rivet Manufacturers. Sale...
They buried him with the honors of war. A dozen blocks from the Capitol is the establishment of one of Senator Robinson's old friends, Undertaker Martin Wellington Hysong. Two weeks ago the Senator was there for dinner. Last week his body was brought to the undertaking rooms two floors below where he had dined. He was dressed in his frock coat and encased in a copper casket stippled over with silver which was stood in the same gloomy corner where the caskets of Senator Walsh and Senator Fletcher stood not long ago. The next morning 15 Senators...
...courts remove him as trustee of the Levi Leiter estate, charging incompetence and extravagance, calling for a special accounting. Sister Nancy Campbell stood by Joseph. Perhaps he had once schemed to buy the Great Wall of China and preserve it for posterity. What if he did once order 50 dozen pairs of silk socks? "I am a hard-headed American businessman," he told the court. "While my sisters were going to Europe marrying titles, I stayed by our property and managed...
VICTORIA FOUR-THIRTY-Cecil Roberts -Macmillan ($2.50). Quiet, almost inaudible novel about a dozen passengers who leave London to make the Orient Express and all keep their seats. Nearest thing to a connecting link between them is the car couplings...