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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English friend who strolled in when he was pulling on his quite modest underpants, His Highness said, "I noticed yesterday that it took exactly two and a half minutes to comb my beard and put on my turban. I have not brought from India regalia worth eight million pounds Sterling. I left my curry cook in Paris to supervise the diet of the Maharanee who is ill. I don't insist that every article of leather be removed from any room I occupy. Most of my entourage are staying in Paris. I am here at the Savoy...
...past sale of the Japanese lamps in this country in violation of the patent." Then it directed General Electric to apply for a blanket injunction prohibiting the defendants from ever again selling such Japanese lamps in the U. S. But only about one-fourth of the 48 million Japanese bulbs imported last year would have been affected by the court's ruling...
Today, when Lamonts get thrown into jail for communistic agitation and Coughlin rules the waves, people who still own million-dollar nests at Newport speak of them apologetically, if at all, and hope furtively that no one will noise it about. While the gleaming Taj Mahals still stand in not-so-mute testimony of the glory that was Ogden Goelet's, Cornelius Vanderbilt's, and Oliver Belmont's, most of the notables of Newport have packed up the family jewels and scandals and gone off in search of simpler dwelling-places on the coasts, of Maine. Not only did conscience...
...discovered, no less than 17 were either motormakers or companies dependent in large measure on the motor industry. In the first four months automobile production was about 1,570,000 units, a 37% gain over the same period of last year. Sales to consumers, however, were only about a million, leaving more than 500,000 cars piled up in the hands of dealers and manufacturers. With the best selling season still ahead, that inventory is nothing alarming but it most certainly means that factory schedules will be pared sharply...
Meanwhile the stockmarket, pursuing an independent course, has been climbing since the middle of March. Last week it flowered in five successive days of million-share trading or better. Brokers got so excited that they began to call up long-lost customers to spread the cheer. Silver stocks led the market (see p. 17), and the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages hit the highest level of the year. But that was the same level as the other New Deal highs of February 1934 and July 1933 and there, balancing better feeling against poorer figures, the stockmarket hung churning...