Word: duns
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...American Woodsman." Certain wistful biographers have hoped that John James Audubon was really the lost Dauphin, sneaked from Paris during the French Revolution. Audubon himself may have thought he was. A vain man, he affected popinjay dress against the dun background of Pennsylvania Quakers, crow's raiment in dandiacal English society. At any rate, his origins were mysterious. He was, perhaps, born in Les Cayes, Santo Domingo (now Haiti) in 1785. Little is known of him before he was 9, when he was legally adopted in France by one Captain Audubon, who said he was the child...
...capacity, some 26 points below the same week last year and 44 below the May high. Scrap, which is an almost infallible index of future steel operations since more than half of steel production is melted scrap, dropped 25? to $14.75 a ton, compared with $22 in mid-August. Dun & Bradstreet reported that retail trade was still from 4% to 15% above 1936 but by a steadily narrowing margin maintained in some cases by price cutting. Freight car loadings were off to 771,655 cars, 5% less than for the same week of 1936. In Lawrence, Mass., the world...
December 3--"The Christian Ethic for the Individual." Angus Dun, professor of Systematic Divinity in the Episcopal Theological School...
December 3--The Christian Ethic for the Individual. Dr. Augus Dun, Professor of Systematic Divinity in Episcopal Theological School...
Over long periods these indices reflect the totality of commodity price changes, but they often lag in revealing price trends over periods of less than a year. For daily distribution by the United Press, a more responsive index is compiled by Dun & Bradstreet from the spot prices of 30 basic commodities. This roster of prices (with 1930-32 as 100) was at 68.51 in March 1933, at 129.96 last October, and by last week was up to 144.62. The Associated Press compiles its own index of 35 commodities for its member newspapers. From a depression low of 41.44 (February...