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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Remaining three proposals in the poll, "governors," "severe penalties," and "special marking of cars" drew national favor of 68 per cent or higher, but were generally lower through the northeast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRAFFIC REFORM LAWS GAIN STUDENT SUPPORT | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

Hogs, in the face of the heaviest shipments in more than a year, bounded upward with the outlawing of the $2.25 per cwt. processing tax. Yet pork prices were slashed, and packers were cheered by the prospect of regaining lost volume through lower meat prices in general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: AAAftermath | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...cents last week but grain surpluses are small. Flour was cut as much as $1.38 per bbl. Some bakers cut the price of bread 1? per loaf. In addition to having fewer taxes to absorb, biscuit bakers and packaged food concerns will probably gain from bigger volume at lower prices. Last year their attempts to pass the tax on to the consumers made many customers so mad that they organized "buyers' strikes." Starting as a protest against the high price of meat, these strikes were ultimately directed against nearly all high-priced groceries. Last week such users of grains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: AAAftermath | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...shown, Cincinnati's voters are not very excited about their reform government even on election day. Last November the City Charter Committee (reform) Administration again excited the admiration of less fortunate U. S. communities by floating $2,000,000 worth of long-term loans at an interest rate lower than that on similar U. S. Government securities. Same day Cincinnati's voters went to the polls, virtually repudiated the Charter Committee's candidates by returning only four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Two & None | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...Last summer Mary Belle Spencer Jr was found lying unconscious beside outer Lake Shore Drive in brassiere and short at 2 a. m. Revived, she explained that she had fallen off a horse which she frequently rode in brassiere and shorts at 2 a. m. Since a lower court ordered the Spencer girls to school, their prosperous parent have sent them to fashionable Starret School. Last week's case, which concerned only the past truancy of Mary Belle, now past school age, came to Criminal Court on the Spencers' appeal. As an attorney for her husband, Mrs. Spencer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Smart Spencers | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

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