Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As it did last October,-price cutting spread. Some steel prices dropped as much as $11 a ton or up to 20%. Characteristically, competing automen disputed Ford's claim for credit in securing the reduction. Meanwhile, large steel orders by the motormakers are probably two months off, for the...
This measure, already passed by the House, is precisely the sort of legislation Chairman Burton K. Wheeler of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee and the New Deal's braintrusters disapprove. Instead of putting such roads as the B. & O. "through the wringer" by wiping out junior securities and cutting...
Last week old Dan Willard, eyes flashing, still insisted valiantly: "If I thought business conditions were to remain as bad as they are, I would say put us into receivership. . . . The railroads are going to :ome back again. ... I haven't lost confidence in the United States!"
Just off Fifth Avenue on 54th Street, touched by the midday shadow of Rockefeller Center's enormous slab, stood the old four-story and nine-story mansions of the Rockefeller family. Town dwellings of the elder and younger John D. Rockefeller for, respectively, 40 and 2 5 years, the...
For such fugitives from history, learned, liberal Historians Charles and Mary Beard this week provided America in Midpassage (the third volume of their Rise of American Civilization), a condensed but still bulky survey of the last ten years. Into its 977 pages the Beards with evident relish have packed the...