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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 30% of the Jewish population of the Free City of Danzig were announced to have fled abroad last week. Danzig Nazis of the Hitler Youth raided a synagogue, trampled and tore up the sacred Hebrew scrolls. Notice was served on 400 Jews owning houses in Danzig that next month Aryans will "purchase" their property. The Jews will be forced to sell out at Nazi-dictated prices...
...Deal's TVA, its Public Utility Holding Company Act, its generally belligerent attitude, have made it next to impossible for utilities to float new security issues. Last week there was evidence to the contrary: investors snapped up $53,000,000 worth of utility bonds, making the month's total more than $160,000,000. But since most of these were refunding operations, the public's attitude on new capital investments was largely untested...
...market has not strayed far from the doldrums. Its irregular booming and bogging has pretty well followed the pattern of 1937. During the last week of July not one new corporate issue was floated, whereas August-at least for public utility financing-has been Depression II's banner month. Biggest issues of August's first half: Indianapolis Power & Light, $37,500,000; Toledo Edison Co., $36,500,000; New York Steam Corp., $27,982,000; Public Service Electric...
...nearby towns with electricity. For a year the Central American Republic's unicameral Congress has engaged in a tiff with Bond & Share. Bond & Share sought a new franchise for its affiliate, asked permission to charge higher rates. The Congress considered the proposed rates exorbitant. Month ago the Congress broke the resultant deadlock by voting 40 to 1 to expropriate the company...
Best-seller lists are generally compounded of publishers' ballyhoo and booksellers' hopes, do not include children's books or reprints. The following list, arranged in order of nationwide sales, differs in that it is based on actual sales figures for last month, supplied by leading U. S. bookstores...