Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clayton had worked together to move the record crop out of the country and hold up the domestic price. Mr. Clayton then had his foreign agents induce spinners to buy heavily as a good investment, with the result that 15% of the 1926 crop was moved by the Clayton firm. At last week's White House conference a plan was under discussion whereby export credits might be established...
...Constitutional President, he had been Ecuador's chief executive for the past five years. Ironically, the same matches which burned him last week helped secure his position two years ago. At that time he got a loan from Swedish Match Co. (Kreuger & Toll) in return for granting the firm a national monopoly. Not only did President Ayora grant a monopoly, but he agreed to pay out of the Ecuadorean treasury $10 on each 1,000 boxes of matches if the annual sales fell below...
...chief contribution to letters and the screen. But it is plainly the product of a sophomore playwright. Its major originality is to show a father who has enriched himself in business, painfully disappointed when his son offers to give up an artistic career and enter the family soap firm. The son's determination to enter business comes from lack of funds and a desire to marry, but the sacrifice of his esthetic ambition is made unnecessary when a picture painted by the father is judged bad enough to be used in an advertising campaign. Doris Kenyon and Lewis Stone...
...Foshay utility system (Minneapolis) which crashed into receivership with the stockmarket in 1929. To his offices at No. 36 Wall Street, George Ohrstrom called help one night last week. There came : Richard Carley Hunt, utility-experienced member of the legal firm of Chadbourne, Hunt, Jaeckel & Brown; William Buchsbaum, utility executive and sportsman; and young, heavy-set Medley G. B. Whelpley, president of American Express Bank & Trust Co. As a reorganization committee (Mr. Hunt, chairman), they hoped to have an announcement to make by the middle of September, hoped the properties might continue to operate intact. The United States District Court...
...rhetorical sot and a nasty old man when drunk: but with his mother he is a different character. His wife Josie. a sinister strong woman, might easily become a heroine in less clever hands than Author Davis'. Theodora is the adventuress of the family, with two firm feet to fall on, but she turns weak as water before her outlandish Syrian lover. Best scene: farewell of Bertha Geiger. half-cracked old family servant, to her mistress who does not remember...