Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week that it had sold more Ivory soap, P. & G., Jap Rose, Camay, Chipso, Crisco and all other P. & G. products in the first three months of 1934 than in any other quarter in the 97 years of its history. In dollars its sales were only at the 1932 level but in tonnage the quarter set a record. Earnings were $4,031,000 against $2,451,000 in the same period of last year. To Chairman William Cooper Procter, who makes 40% of all U. S. soap, the future should have appeared fine and dirty...
...payment for U. S. agricultural surpluses. When the Senate Agriculture Committee got through with the bill, surpluses became a secondary consideration. As amended, the bill directed the Government to buy all the silver in the U. S. and 50,000,000 oz. every month until the 1926 general price level was reached. Such a measure would wreck the President's monetary plans. Furthermore it would bring about a first-rate quarrel between him and his outgoing Congress. Both things he wanted to avoid...
...that he was heavily underbid on all but the Newark-Boston run. He stood to lose even his old southern transcontinental route, having overbid his nearest competitor for half the run by 10?. Obviously fear of Cord competition had caused other lines to hack down their rates to a level where they could not possibly make their operating expenses...
...were taking place throughout the land last week, the executive council of the American Bankers Association in Hot Springs, Ark. was pondering a report on the subject of bank robberies. Bank clearings in the 21 leading U.S. cities last week were up 82% from last year to the highest level since January 1932, but the week's crop of robberies was nearly normal. An ABA committee reported that in the six months ending Feb. 28 there had been 188 bank hold-ups by daylight, 29 night burglaries-an average of nearly nine per week. But the half-year total...
...less than the highest world price for spot fine silver on the day preceding . . . the proclamation of the nationalization of silver." 2) To order the Treasury beginning in January 1935 to buy 50,000,000 ounces of silver each month-all silver purchase to stop when the general price level of 1926 had been restored, or when silver reached $1.29 per oz. (present market price...