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...economic tenterhooks and will hang there helplessly till, among other things, the war debts have been settled. Economists without exception as a means to recovery. The first fact they recognize is that Europe is simply unable to pay in toto, that the United States, if she continues to dun to the limit, will get notices of default, repudiations and lasting animosity. Moanwhile, before those notices come in, she will be driven to the wall with the rest of the western world. If, for instance, the United States demands payment in full from Great Britain, the results may be prostration...
...which has characterized even the best American editorship in the recent past. It has never entered any bids for the favor of the wider and less lettered public on which many magazines are now thriving. Instead it has kept its place by its literary "finds" and by a certain dun and academic distinction...
...satisfactory. The Federal Reserve report on department store sales showed them running 26% behind last year. While there was a gain over July, it was smaller than usual. The first 16 chain stores to report for August showed that they were 15.7% below last year. But last week Dun's reported a "rebound" and said that "the era of sacrifice sales of all sorts . . . either has passed entirely or is about to end." Not increased trade but increased stock exchange business however was the cause of a 3.6% gain in bank clearings during August. The country would have shown...
...telegram: "The Russian Government alone can understand you. Come to us: we will make your School.'' Irma helped with the school, stayed seven years. After Isadora's death she took to the U. S. a troupe of ten bewildered Soviet girls. The Soviet school still flourishes, the Dun can tradition is there more lively than anywhere else...
Security ownership in 1932 has been surveyed and summarized by R. G. Dun & Co. It was found that during the past two years the number of stockholders in 346 companies whose issues are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, increased 41.5% and stands now at 5,848,000. The number of these corporations having less than 2,000 stockholders has decreased from...