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...speculators took it easy last week. Brokers cleaned up the litter left by the July Crash (TIME. July 31). Stock and grain prices rebounded, then shuffled off in a secondary reaction as exchange offi cials prepared for resumption of normal trading. The Chicago Board of Trade retained limits on daily fluctuation but removed the minimum prices established when Edward A. ("Doc") Crawford was suspended for insolvency. Banned from the pit forever were all dealings in in demnities (options on grain futures contracts, generally regarded as pure gambling). The New York Stock Exchange voted to lengthen its short sessions into...
Please explain why TIME'S editors permitted mention of a particular brand of cigaret in issue of July 3, quoting: "Administrator General Hugh Johnson . . . was to be found among a prodigious litter of waste paper and Old Gold cigaret butts...
...model form of exemption. ... Its general effect is to allow a tradesman to announce his business-once, on each front of his premises toward a road and to display advertisements ... on a single space on the building of not more than 24 sq. ft. "On the question of litter, there is no doubt that the habits of the public have greatly improved, but they are a long way from perfection. ... On the London General omnibuses I have observed that only five percent of the passengers make use of the receptacles provided for used tickets. . . . What we must do is raise...
Most of last week, Industrial Recovery Administration Administrator General Hugh Samuel Johnso, U. S. A. retired, was to be found among a prodigious litter of waste paper and Old Gold cigaret butts in a little cubicle on the third floor of Washington's new colossal Department of Commerce building. His clothing askew, his eyes bloodshot for want of sleep, he was receiving fidgety and excited businessmen at the rate of 100 per day. Occasionally he would pick up a telephone, perhaps to bark, as he did to Motormaker Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudsons), Hoover Secretary of Commerce...
...recovered completely and three weeks later became the mother of a one-dog litter...