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Among the familiar evidences of European foreboding, this quiet emigration of paintings to Philadelphia ranks as a minor but interesting portent. Both loans were arranged by the Pennsylvania Museum's young, socialite Assistant Curator Henry Plumer Mcllhenny. Young Mr. McIlhenny was tipped off to the nervousness of young M. Gangnat last summer...
...plainer boom portent has been seen than the recent upward surge in prices, Moody's commodity index having risen 20% in the past six months. Wheat at $1.25 per bu. last week was at a six-year high, cocoa at 11¼? per Ib. at a seven-year high, rubber at 19? per Ib. at a seven-year-high...
...favor of the New Deal. It might have been explained by the hopes & fears of Inflation, since the election insured a continuation of the New Deal's cheap money policy. But on one day 14 issues of Government bonds made new highs since issuance-not precisely an inflationary portent. Still another explanation might have been the continuing flood of extra dividends flowing from efforts to escape the tax penalty on undistributed profits. Standard of New Jersey declared a 75? extra which amounted to $10,000,000, Standard of Indiana a $1 extra footing up to more than...
...bright that a brief reaction in steel operations, originally expected last month but now predicted before Labor Day, would probably clear up what little excess steel inventory there is. In Pittsburgh last week the price ol steel scrap forged ahead 50? to $15.25 per ton-a significant portent of good autumn steel news...
...Eden this week left this point unsettled but he gave most of his time to an ingratiating sales talk for the League of Nations. Exclaiming sorrowfully that "eighteen years after the war to end war, we find ourselves confronted with the same problems dreadfully similar in character and portent to those before 1914," he went on to point the Conservative moral that "whichever course events may take, one element which appears essential for every course is that Great Britain must be strong...