Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which they deposit their odd coins. The idea developed 20 years ago when Wilbur Chapman, Kansas farm boy, bought a piglet, named him Pete, raised him to pighood, gave his profit to Leper missions. Last week Mr. Chapman, now a St. Paul electrical engineer, visited Manhattan to permit a firm-willed patrician from Richmond, Va., Mrs. Robert Randolph Harrison, to pin a silver medal on him for his boyhood initiative. Mrs. Harrison during the ceremony wore a little gold pig on a brooch over her heart; she is the "Honorable First Pig Lady in America," for ingeniously transforming Mr. Chapman...
Stock Exchange. Meantime the President had under way his own investigation of the New York Stock Exchange-an investigation conducted by a committee consisting of Professor John Dickinson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Undersecretary of the Treasury Dean Acheson, Braintruster Adolf Augustus Berle Jr., and Arthur Dean of the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. Their purpose: not to drag scandal to public view but to see how the Exchange's merits balance its demerits, to recommend under what form it should be allowed to continue to exist...
...credit agencies to remain stagnant, Mr. Ford has a natural prejudice against the abolition of private ownership, a prejudice which any of us would entertain in his place. But this does not blind him to the folly of "planned capitalism", and I hope that his stand will be firm enough to reclaim many of the facile converts that our cotton ploughmen have made...
...Arms Makers Work," by Vita and Joseph Friend, is an article that will appeal to almost everyone. While it is largely a catalogue of the facts, figures, and activities of the great war materials firms, it contains information not generally available in such terse form. The pacifist will find here material for endless confounding of his opponents; the militarist and members of the firm of Du Pont de Nemours will be stimulated to thought and research into their consciences. After listening however, to the recital of the enormous war-time profits of arms manufacturers, and of the interlocking directorates...
Park & Tilford Martel Brandy Marie Brizard Cordials and last, but not least, the old firm...