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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supplies of raw materials, customarily pay off their loans when they let inventory run off. In order to keep purely financial transactions from unduly influencing the Index-which aims to reflect general business, not merely financial conditions-the turnover component for financial centres like New York and Chicago is kept separate from the turnover component for trade centres, and the two are later combined giving the turnover in trade centres, and much more weight than that for financial centres. In the chart they are shown separately.) In early 1939 the trend of turnover in trade centres followed a course roughly...
...slightly higher than in January. Threat of war sent it skidding. Then during the "war boom" in production, it fluctuated vigorously without making headway and did not equal its prewar peak till mid November-an indication that during this period the volume of transactions in these centres just about kept pace with proportional increase in inventories...
...studio engineers kept talking to him over the hookup (a telephone line from Montevideo to Buenos Aires, short-wave radio to New York), just as reporters covering important stories used to file the Bible over the wire between developments to keep control of their telegraph connections. At 5:55 p.m. E.S.T., Jimmy shouted into the phone: "Hello New York! Hello New York! Gimme the air, gimme the air. She's exploding, blowing up! She's just been scuttled...
...translation, fully competent, lucid and unpretentious, of the French Poet Rimbaud's famed Season in Hell. Translator Delmore Schwartz kept in English all that dispassionate English can keep of Rimbaud's poetry-everything, that is, but the essential harshness and resonance of the original...
...naked language not of literature but of a man's talking, unquotable except by the page, Tropic of Capricorn would mean plenty to countless men-in-the-street. The "dithyrambic prose" which excited avant-garde blurbists in Tropic of Cancer-and which was frequently tiresome-has been kept in hand by a new sense of structure -a better interplay of narrative and reminiscence...