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...Farnsworth Reading Room on the main floor of Widener has been opened for the first time since 1942, Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University Library, announced today...
Wallace B. Donham '98, George Fisher Baker Professor of Administration, and Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University Library, were added to the Board of Stockholders for five years...
General Foods, said the referee, first went into the rye market in December 1942 (General Foods' reason: to hedge against losses in wheat and corn). General Foods' Executive Vice President Charles W. Metcalf bought so heavily in rye and rye futures (i.e., contracts to receive rye at a future date) that by December 31, 1943 General Foods was close to having a corner with 76% of all the deliverable rye in Chicago. The worried Chicago Board of Trade meanwhile got Metcalf to promise that General Foods would buy no more rye without the board's consent...
...Metcalf added to the squeeze; he acquired 125,000 bu. of May futures for himself and family. (Later, said the report, General Foods executives forced him to resign because of his side speculation...
...Metcalf's guess is that the library buys on an average one new novel a week...