Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past six years the ratio of A & P's private brands to other merchandise on A & P shelves has increased immeasurably. If A & P decided to discredit national brands as a preliminary to making everything it sold, that would be horrid news to U. S. foodmen. That the New-Orleans handbill might be the opening gun in just such a campaign was the dizziest speculation that occurred to food manufacturers. Another was that the handbills were intended as a gratuitous slap at the Robinson-Patman Act (against price discrimination). After foodmen had stewed for a full week in these...
Much in the news last week was the last important U. S. commodity market to emerge from Depression doldrums. The New York Cocoa Exchange announced record turnover of 77,558 contracts of 30,000 lb. each during 1936, almost double the figure for 1935. Imports of cocoa beans into the U. S., which drinks or eat as chocolate about 40% of the world supply, were 4,312,518 bags last year compared to 3,883,593 bags in 1935. And after a sharp advance during the last six month; the price of cocoa last week hovered around...
When it became apparent in Moscow that further blandishments would be futile, Ipatieff was expelled from the Academy and denounced as a traitor under articles Nos. 130 and 133 of the new Soviet Constitution. Last week the old scientist was grieved by news that his son, a Moscow chemistry teacher, had ridiculed his reasons for not returning, had "scathingly denounced" him. Dr. Ipatieff looked up the word "scathingly" in a Russian-English dictionary, sighed...
...feel tremendously exhilarated was to go out on the streets." With the Bolshevik Revolution everything got more serious. Lola was an anti-Bolshevik. She turned down a chance to become one of Trotsky's secretaries, got a job instead on the Russian Daily News, only English daily paper in Petrograd, and the last counter-revolutionary paper to be suppressed. She fell in love with a highly proper young English diplomat, kept offending him because she was. not so proper as he was. History was in the making all around her, but she hardly noticed...
...weekend just past has been a tense one for all devotees of Harvard football, and it is with unmixed relief that news is received in Cambridge of Coach Dick Harlow's resolve to stay with the Crimson next year. In spite of an offer which could not but be attractive to him, Coach Harlow refuses to give up his job before it is completed, and for this generosity Harvardmen are deeply indebted...