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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest acquisition of Madame Tussaud's famed waxwork exhibition in London is a life-size effigy of Premier Stanley Baldwin, reputed to be " amazingly realistic...
...cash position of the Company challenges comparison with any company in the world on the basis of the latest statements; but how much good-will and trade marks are valued at, and how large a part of this cash item they constitute, cannot be determined...
...gross of $190,000,000 established the preceding year; profits also fell some $10,000,000 below those of last year. This decrease is mainly due to the reduction upon the profit obtained per car, which dropped from $90 a year ago to $43 this year. During the latest period, the concern produced 1,833,812 cars, trucks, tractors and Lincolns, compared with a total of 1,080,000 vehicles the preceding year...
...firming of security and commodity prices, have been the most recent indications of a prosperous Autumn trade now close at hand. The domestic situation has been sufficiently cheerful to counteract such pessimistic foreign news as the Japanese earthquake, the Italo-Greek imbroglio and the economic flounderings of the latest German Government. It is evident that the present momentum of the retail trade should carry well through the late Autumn, unless some unforeseen calamity or calamities develop. Pig production, however-a good index of general production-has fallen off, and the extractor and manufacturer is likely to view the future with...
...lowest for August in the past nine years. The pessimistic tone of the Government forecast was a complete surprise to the trade, and resulted in a sharp advance of $5 a bale for spot cotton in New Orleans. The final crop harvested may, however, vary considerably from this latest forecast, according to the turn taken by various conditioning factors during the remainder of the crop season. The chief reason given for inroads made by the weevil is, that heavy rains in much of the belt have washed from the cotton plants the calcium arsenate placed there to protect them against...