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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Embarking today for England where they will take part in the one-hundredth anniversary Henley Regatta, Bert Haines' 150-pound crew leaves New York today on the Aquitania, confident of victory. The Eli crew which it beat last month on the Charles will make the voyage on the same boat...
...orderly marketing" of cotton and other products-in short, to peg prices-Commodity Credit was once regarded as one of the New Deal's few self-sustaining agencies. But despite its auspicious start in 1933-34, its successful $200,000,000 issue of Government-guaranteed 3/4% notes last month, the agency has lately run into difficulties.* Recently it announced a $51,000,000 loss on 12? cotton loans made in 1934, and with 1,670,000 bales left on its hands it has a further paper loss of $46,250,000. Now Commodity Credit apparently must lend more heavily...
Last week Kennecott Copper Corp., whose operations fell to 16% of capacity in 1932 during the depths of Depression I, announced that beginning June 16 all its U. S. mines would be closed "for at least a month." Domestic scrap copper prices having tumbled from 10? to 6.75? a Ib. in eight days, Anaconda Copper Mining Co., one of the world's biggest producers, already had closed two of its biggest U. S. mines...
...paid for protection against union organization as well as vandalism; it showed that racketeering unionists were offering to enforce price-fixing arrangements for employers in return for their compelling workers to join the union and pay dues. Police claimed they were powerless because businessmen refused to sign complaints. Last month, after threats of a shakeup, the police started making arrests. A few days later, Business Agent Mahan was ousted by his international union...
During its 80 years of continuous publication, the Atlantic Montlily has had eight editors. The first seven*served for the first 50 years. This month, the eighth, Ellery Sedgwick, gave up his title after 30 years...