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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waiters, numbering 229 in all, received wages amounting to $32,000, the largest total for any term-time student occupation. Included in the 48 varieties of work were such odd jobs as teaching chess, modelling for artists, traffic directing, and snow shoveling...
...peak week last December, Goliath General Motors Corp. produced 53,000 automobiles. Last week with all its 69 automobile plants closed or crippled by strikes, the world's largest motor manufacturer turned out a piddling 1,500 units, mostly trucks. The idle bulk of its 135,000 production employes continued last week, the fifth of the strike, to lose around $800,000 per day in wages. For the first time G. M.'s 330.000 stockholders felt the pinch as quarterly dividends were lopped from 50? to 25?-per share...
...order brought to a sharp halt a selling swirl which had carried down the price of cocoa nearly 25% within a fortnight and forced the Exchange at one point to suspend trading. The Hershey bid, slightly under the market, was not filled, but coming from the world's largest cocoa buyer the gesture was enough...
...Norwegians and Swedes lead the world in ice boating. They took the craft from Holland where they were used for winter canal travel. The Stockholm Ice Yacht Club has the largest active ice boat fleet of any club...
...Paris last week, against a backdrop of grenadine velvet, the Bank of France staged its first meeting since Premier Blum enfranchised the Bank's 40,000 hitherto voteless stockholders. Sole control previously rested in the potent hands of the 200 largest shareholders-"the 200 Families of France" (TIME, May 18, et seq.). With a turn-out of no less than 1,300 excited Parisian and provincial shareholders, the meeting was as raucous as a stormy session of the Chamber of Deputies. It took Governor Emile Labeyrie three hours to get through his scholarly 90-minute report, so often...