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...Said Dun & Bradstreet: "During the week there was a complete transformation of sentiment as the hopes for a rather far-removed improvement were replaced by a realization that the immediate future is to bring the sharpest rise that has been witnessed in business in the past quarter of a century...
...Said Dun & Bradstreet several days later in a hasty disclaimer: "No significant information justified the inadvertent and unauthorized departure from our policy of not making predictions as to the future business trend...
...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...