Word: hikes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury hirelings have been hard at work on defense financing schemes for months. Last week a few details of what will be the biggest money drive in history leaked out. With one hand, the Treasury will hike taxes again (see p. 16). With the other, it will sell bonds. Bonds have long been the Treasury's chief method of deficit financing. But it figures that corporations, which used to buy Government bonds, now need their excess funds for defense expansion. Treasury issues which used to be oversubscribed 10-14 times now are oversubscribed only 2-4 times...
...been sold, but mostly to tired old women, Booth Tarkington and Erich von Stroheim. Frank Riggio figured that by putting an American blend in the 85 mm.s he could broaden their market. The 20% extra length would give a cooler, longer smoke; the 11% extra tobacco required would hike the manufacturing cost only 35? a thousand (from around $5)-not enough to throw them out of price competition* with the popular brands. Young Mr. Riggio figured right. The first year (1939) his Regent brand, with outlets only in New York and New England, sold 200,000,000 cigarets. Papa Riggio...
...presence of English or French youth were they to fight our battle and sacrifice the lives of their brethren in order that the Allies may dictate peace terms favorable to America as well as to themselves, all while we are enjoying a war boom here, with freedom to swim, hike, enjoy many sports, as contrasted to the horrors of the battlefields across the ocean...
...from 1938) owns 90% of Cuban-American Manganese Corp. The discoverer of Cuban manganese was a Rough Rider, John Campbell Greenway, later a famed Arizona rancher and copper tycoon who married a schoolmate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Rough Rider Greenway kicked up a lump of ore on a hike over a dusty Cuban road in '98, showed his find to fellow Lieut. David M. Goodrich. Easier to work than U. S. ore because it lies close to the surface, Cuban deposits were far lower grade than the Russian or Indian. Not until 1929 (three years after Greenway had died, four...
...figure of doom last week. Expiring in only 72 hours was the U. S. Japanese Commerce & Navigation Treaty of 1911. the keystone of a trade vital to Japan and valuable to the U. S. At and after the stroke of midnight. Jan. 26, the U. S. could hike tariff duties on imports from Japan, put many an obstacle in the way of exports to Japan. Ambassador Horinouchi therefore came to ask: What...