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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt, encouraged by production at 123, began to make noises like economy. If, as in 1937, he should get revenues to exceed Government expenditures, business will be deprived of nearly $300,000,000 a month of artificial stimulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: For Pessimists | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...faster than the public was buying. They feared that raw material prices would rise, boosting prices and nipping the industry's little boomlet. They gloomed that if World War II brings increased construction costs, new home building will suffer. All the same, 1939 household furniture sales should exceed $400,000,000 for the first time since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Not War | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...potent Pittsburgh competitor, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., announced a 6% November wage bonus, compared to 4% in October for its 45,000 employes. Westinghouse's bonus system, adopted in 1936, boosts wages 1% for each $60,000 by which average monthly earnings for the previous three months exceed $600,000, cuts them 1% for every $60,000 below this par. Westinghouse's profit-sharing payments to Nov. 1 this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Melons for Workers | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...expect to expand the album a great deal," and intimated that an increase in price over last year's $7.50 charge might be necessitated. With the exception of the 1939 book, Albums have been traditionally priced at $10; Donnell stated that this year's book would in no event exceed that figure, with a strong possibility of being less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAIRMAN OF 1940 ALBUM COMMITTEE DISCLOSES PLANS | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Containing pictures of all but two of the 912 Freshmen, the 1943 Register has already gone to press and will appear next Thursday, according to a statement made yesterday by Charles M. Bliss '43, chairman of the Red Book. Circulation will exceed last year's, he predicted, as a hand-picked list of 150 debutantes has received invitations to subscribe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGISTER ISSUED THURSDAY; WILL BE AVAILABLE TO DEBS | 12/2/1939 | See Source »

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