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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Memorable for U. S. tourists in England was the declaration of Charles A. Penn, vice president of American Tobacco Co., that a factory will be built in England to manufacture American cigarets at low prices...
...Chicago, Federal Reserve directors discussed radical action, a return to the early system of "differential rediscounting," with low rates for agricultural and industrial loans, high rates for loans destined for speculation. To Manhattan came curly-haired Roy Archibald Young, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, ostensibly on a tour of inspection. But bankers noted his arrival coincided with the issuance of a serious warning by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Banks were "overloaned." The discrepancy between deposits and loans was becoming too great...
...meat. He had invoked the experience of the heroic Greeks, meat-haters. Statistics of calories and vitamins filled his menus. But gross sales for five months of 1928 showed a falling off of 9%, while the common stock sagged from a high 74 in 1925 to a 1928 low of 38. And last week he yielded, but without grace. Inept, as a bid for popularity, were the advertisements inserted for the first time in the newspapers. They read...
Chrysler Corp. has gone into the low-priced field with the throttle wide open. Item A: the new Plymouth, a four-cylinder car, with Silver-Dome high-compression engine which uses any gasoline, capable of a speed of more than 60 miles per hour, selling for $670 (roadster, coupe) up to $725 (four-door sedan). Item B: the new De Soto, a six-cylinder car selling for less than $1,000. In performance and appearance, it is similar to the new Chrysler 65, a slightly more expensive car. "Much for little" is the idea behind the De Soto...
...Young Foyle is cast upon an imaginary mid-Pacific island-not to found the new social order, but to encounter thrilling adventures among relics of four races: satyrs who mate with human beings, ruka-birds of uncanny intelligence, high-minded followers of the Priest of Gir, and the low-born descendants of a pirate crew. Satyr hunts, cannibalistic orgies, hair-raising escapes are in order. But Author Wright will rather be remembered for the swift ingenuity of his unique Deluge...