Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rule, the likeness of Thomas Jefferson is engraved on U. S. bonds of $50 denomination. Andrew Jackson's image went on the Adjusted Service Bonds, said Secretary Morgenthau, because he was "a soldiers' President." For more news about last week's Bonus distribution, see National Affairs...
...sour hint marred any of the reports delivered to the Mother Church meeting. According to these, some 150,000 "friendly and constructive" news items relating to Christian Science were published during the past year. Some 3,000,000 people all over the world heard 3,111 Christian Science lectures. Twenty-two new "societies" were founded, one of them by natives in remote mountains of the Philippine Islands. Circulation of the famed Christian Science Monitor (daily) advanced from 129,000 to 146,000, a new high. Indebtedness for remodeling the old Christian Science Publishing House as an administration building was paid...
Chief significance of Dr. Machen's new Church, which will probably not subtract more than a few thousand members from the parent organization, is that it liquidates him as ecclesiastical news. He can no longer with reason utter the peppery denunciations of the conduct of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. which used to keep him constantly before the public. A relieved good-by to Dr. Machen & Co. was said last week by the Presbyterian Banner: "We have no unkind feelings toward these brethren but hope they will treat one another better than they have treated...
...potato markets last week there was as merry a flurry as any speculator could desire. For weeks potato prices have been skyrocketing on news of the greatest potato shortage since 1919. Not only are potatoes scarce but yellow turnips, the usual substitute, are practically impossible to buy either in the U. S. or Canada. A year ago old-crop potatoes retailed as low as 75? per 100-lb. bag and new potatoes were $2 and $3 per bbl. At the beginning of last week, 100-lb. bags of old potatoes were selling for more than $4.25 and prime tubers...
Much in the news last week was James Henry Rand Jr., bulky president of Remington-Rand Inc., world's biggest maker of office equipment. He became Samuel Insull's first big radio customer, putting on a news program over the new Affiliated Broadcast Co. network (TIME, Feb. 24). He reported a $3,000,000 profit for his fiscal year through March, a whopping increase over the $1,750,000 earned the year before. And he settled to his satisfaction one of the most curious strikes in the history of U. S. Labor...