Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...risen 32%, cost of living 24%, prices of farm products 118%, wholesale prices 45%, Moody's index of spot prices of basic commodities 140%, prices of copper 188%, lead 115%, eggs 73%, flour 69%. Listing these figures and many others in the December Atlantic Monthly, Princeton Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer commented: "That is inflation." Economist Kemmerer expects commodity prices to rise some 69% more and the cost of living to double. Nor is this a lone-wolf stand. Harvard's Professor Melvin Thomas Copeland made similar predictions last fall (TIME...
...Edwin D. Alford, San Marino, California; Robert H. Cain, Melrose; Peter C. Coggeshall, Darlington, South Carolina; James A. Dearborn, Brookline; Lawrence A. Hart, New York, New York; Charles A. Haskins, Cambridge; Albert P. Heiner, Salt Lake City, Utah; Thomas M. Hill, Bucksport, Maine; Samuel Y. Johnson, Pasadena, California; William M. Mack, Cambridge; Thomas H. T. Morrow, South Tacoma, Washington; Karl B. Rusch, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
...EDWIN GUNWALD...
...subsidization directed overtly and covertly at some of its members, the Pacific Coast Conference last week decided to find out just how professional it really is. That the member colleges did not exactly trust one another was evidenced by the researcher they chose to investigate their affairs: pug-nosed Edwin N. Atherton, onetime G-man and recent head of San Francisco's graft inquiry...
...only annihilate everything at the site of impact but cause a tremendous earthquake and fires which would destroy life and property hundreds of miles away. If it fell into the sea, ships would be smashed and coast lines inundated by mighty tidal waves. When a newshawk asked Dr. Harry Edwin Wood of Johannesburg last week what would have happened if "Object Reinmuth" had landed on Earth, he answered with wry circumspection: "It might conceivably have altered the international situation somewhat...