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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flat glass). To his friend Franklin Roosevelt, Mr. Biggers left many a fact & figure underlining the extent and the why of unemployment. In a letter announcing that the census was complete, he wrote: "The most significant fact ... is that 2,740,000 more persons have entered the labor market since 1930 than were to have been expected from past experience. This entire increase is made up of women workers. . ." On the labor market when Mr. Biggers surveyed it last November were 39,978,000 males, 14,496,000 females between 15 and 74. Of these, approximately...
...York Central for $8,500,000. The road made money steadily for 15 years. But between 1927 and 1929 the Vans made a second, less prudent purchase. After a spectacular tussle with the Taplin interests (Pittsburgh & West Virginia R. R.), which resulted in a virtual corner on the stock market, they bought control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie...
Simple, delicious food served at reasonable prices in the setting of the old Boston market near Faneuil Hall. Not open Sundays or Holidays...
Other reactions to peace were equally logical. Foreign bonds led a zooming bond market. Sterling jumped 13? in one day. Prices of the "war commodities"-wheat, sugar, cottonseed oil-plummeted; other commodities-rubber, silk, hides, cocoa, cotton-zoomed. Marine insurance rates on war risk for gold shipments were cut in half. Brokers resumed plans for new financing, which had sunk to the lowest September volume in three years. And with the overwhelming question of war at least postponed, U.S. businessmen returned to the question of business prospects...
...committee to revamp the Exchange's constitution. He picked a nonmember industrialist whose company was listed on the Big Board-Chairman Carle Cotter Conway of Continental Can Co. The recommendations of the Conway Committee eventually became the basis for the spectacular reform of the world's chief market place (TIME, Feb. 7, et seq.). Last week upon the nomination of Exchange President William McC. Martin Jr. (who got his big chance on the Conway Committee), Carle Conway and two liberal-minded Chicagoans. President Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago and General Robert Wood, president of Sears...