Word: market
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agriculture who gave him a pamphlet, available to anyone who asked for it, containing some information on temperature, formulae, aeration, etc. Pillsbury and his associates were incorporated as Chemical Garden Co., with an initial capitalization of $10,000, and last week they were going ahead with plans to market chemicals at a price of $1 for 25 oz., and small steel tanks for $6 each. They have 11,000 sq. ft. of hydroponic tanks under experimental cultivation, have acquired the services of a trained plant physiologist. When Dr. Gericke heard of the enterprise, his principal comment was "Humph...
...Guild's repertory for its tour is balanced between the gay and the sombre: La Cambiale di Matrimonio ("The Matrimonial Market"), Rossini's first operatic work, an opera-buffa composed when he was 18; Angelique, music by contemporary Frenchman Jacques Ibert, the story of a shopkeeper's efforts to sell his shrewish wife; Le Pauvre Matelot, a "lament in one act," music by Darius Milhaud. libretto by Jean Cocteau, in which a woman kills a sailor, unaware that he is her husband who has returned after 15 years' absence. This week the Guild gives the first...
...plays running on Broadway, offstage organ music is simulated by that versatile instrument, put on the market two years ago by Inventor Laurens Hammond, which produces organ-like sounds- and many others-by electrical vibrations (TIME, April 29, 1935). Last week the American Federation of Musicians, ever vigilant where mechanical music encroaches upon musicians' jobs, stepped in with an order that an orchestra of at least four men must be employed wherever a Hammond is played...
...conference in Bogota which seemed to promise that Brazil might finally get some cooperation from other coffee producing nations. For that is the crux of the problem. While Brazil has rigorously and painfully sliced away at her own surplus, necessarily sacrificing some part of her share of the world market, rival nations, notably Colombia, have greedily continued to grow and sell more & more coffee. In the crop year ended June 30, Brazilian coffee exports were off 12%, those of rival nations up 11%. During the first four months of the current crop year, Brazil shipped 18% less coffee to world...
From the momentary rise of last fortnight which followed the loosened margin requirements set up by the Federal Reserve Board, the New York stock market last week slid hissingly back like a long wave receding down a beach. In trading, notable neither for volume nor volatility, prices descended every day, at week's end were back almost to the year's lows set on "black Tuesday," October 19. Dow-Jones industrial averages were down to 125.25, railroads to 31.67, utilities to 21.21. U. S. Steel stood at $53, Allied Chemical at $152, New York Central at $18, Consolidated...