Word: duns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commerce Building it rambles through a vast suite of offices. In the seat where Hugh Johnson once sat alone, now sits the National Industrial Recovery Board with S. Clay Williams as its chairman. Beside him sit his four horsemen: Leon C. Marshall, political economist; Arthur D. Whiteside, executive of Dun & Bradstreet; Sidney Hillman, labor executive; Walton H. Hamilton, lawyer and economist-a potent team whose days are given to wrestling with economic problems, with captains of industry and leaders of labor. Chairman Williams' administrative officer is William Averell Harriman, son of Capitalism, who has made more of a mark...
Average retail price of beef is 17% above a year ago; pork chops 34%; lard 70%; poultry 16%; eggs 23%; canned peas 22%. Hotels and restaurants reported butchers' bills up 37%. Dun & Bradstreet's wholesale food index covering 31 different items has climbed 7% since the year end, now standing 30% above February 1934, 83% above February 1933. Only a few staples like potatoes, cabbages, onions, bananas are selling lower than a year...
...Syrian Desert last week flew 24 British Royal Air Force planes, fanwise, in quest of something. Across the rain-soaked sands beneath them crawled British armored cars, likewise looking. Finally one of the pilots found what they all sought. Round & round he circled over a black smudge on the dun-colored wasteland. Dipping earthward he saw a tangled mass of charred metal, a few corpses, letters scattered like snow upon the sands...
...much of the current upward surge is due to the Government's truce with Business no man can say. Nevertheless, Dun & Bradstreet last week found the state of trade and sentiment so strong that they thought it foreshadowed a business revival "without parallel in modern commercial history for the abruptness of its rise and the intensity of its pursuance...
Board's baby was NRA's associate counsel, Blackwell Smith, Manhattan lawyer. Board's oldster was Leon Carroll Marshall, a Johns Hopkins law professor who had served on the National Labor Board and been one of NRA's assistant administrators. President Arthur Dare Whiteside of Dun & Bradstreet had served the Blue Eagle as a division administrator. Sidney Hillman, president of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, had been on the Labor Advisory Board. From the Consumers Advisory Board came Walton Hale Hamilton, professor of political economy. Economic adviser was Leon Henderson of the Russell Sage Foundation...