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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cotton year ended July 1, 1939. The balance of the subsidy fund should account for another 600,000 bales at $1 a bale. But if farmers, who have 3,941,950 bales in hock with the Government, start repossessing, they can flood the market all over again, break the price...
...gamble that retail sales will boom before production declines under inventory pressure. But there was an additional reason for textile activity: England, needing burlap for sandbags, has virtually cleaned out the Calcutta market since the outbreak of war with orders so far totaling 1,000,000,000 bags. The price of raw material for burlap is up from ?18 ($84.24) a ton in August to ?88 (about $344.96). Supplies for the U. S. are limited, not likely to last long. Textile companies are selling low-grade, rough cottons to replace burlap sacks...
...August, zinc sold at 4¾? a Ib. With war, its price rose to 6½? - a rise of 47% which precipitated no end of buying and production for inventory. Then sales began to dry up. Fortnight ago, American Smelting and Refining Co. dropped the price ½? ($10 a ton). Trade pundits guessed that the steel industry-one of the largest consumers of nonferrous metal-would let down production even further after January, and American Metal Market headlined: "The outlook for Metal Prices none too solid...
...three sisters (Norma Jones, Perle Hopson, Amy Starch) ; his brother-in-law, Commercial Research's famed Dr. Daniel Starch. A few weeks ago Mr. Mange went calling on Jesse Jones to see about arranging an RFC loan. Soon Associated got the idea thai Mr. Jones's price for making the loan was a finger in management. Last week, Associated acquired a new president, a veteran Washington lawyer named Roger Whiteford, who is given to lecturing on the trial of Christ; who is a buddy of the Hopson sisters' lawyer, ex-Attorney General Homer Cummings. Pleading ill health...
Twenty years ago the U. S. Public Health Service quietly began to print dowdy little pamphlets on birds, flowers & sex which it handed out to parents and schoolteachers for the price of a stamp. Later it dared dry little whispers on the cause and treatment of venereal disease. Three and a half years ago, when dynamic Thomas Parran was appointed Surgeon-General, he promptly starched up the publicity of the Public Health Service, egged on press and radio to utter the unutterable words "syphilis" and "gonorrhea...