Word: pound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done with the wheat before it becomes flour in New York City; then recall what has to be added to and done with the resultant product before it becomes bread upon the table; you will be reminded of a few items of cost. You say in France a pound-loaf of bread sold for 4½?. We say in America in some places a pound-loaf sold for 4? (see paragraph 2)-made in the cleanest bakeries and the highest wage scale in the world. (Note:-Shoes from Czechoslovakia, light globes from Japan, shirts from England, all sell below American...
Major Deeds crying loudest to be done by the Conference are four: 1) Interstabilization of the gyrating dollar and wobbling pound with each other and with gold standard currencies such as the French franc, Dutch gulden, Swiss franc. Last week the dollar plunged down to a new low-for-all-time against gulden and Swiss francs, tobogganed to a value of about 81.8? against French francs. This meant that the British Treasury, which is trying to keep sterling low for competitive trade purposes, saw the pound skyrocket within a week from $4.01 to $4.20, a new high since England went...
...England) and a brisk young Manhattan banker, James Paul Warburg. Letting Secretary Hull stew in his low tariff juice, these U. S. fiscal experts made swift contact with their peers at the British Treasury and in the Bank of England, started conversations to determine at what relative point pound, dollar and franc can and should be stabilized...
...members of the Faculty appearing as contributors are: J. H. Beale '82, G. D. Birkhoff '05, W. B. Cannon '96, T. N. Carver, hon., Sheldon Cheney Gr. '13, E. F. Gay '08, A. B. Hart '80, W. E. Hocking '01, A. Lawrence Lowell '77, K. B. Murdock '16, Roscoe Pound LL.D. '20, the late J. H. Ropes '89, F. W. Taussig '79, A. N. Whitehead...
HART CRANE, whose published and unpublished poems are here gathered together for the first time, belonged to that second generation of modern poets whose work has been so largely influenced by Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. He brought to the study of the French symbolists and the later Elizabethans an original insight of his own, however, and his work is in a sense and extension of his. Immediate predecessors, original in technique, deeply American in content...