Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Chicago's presses last week came two blue-covered pamphlets whose importance to the present and future progress of science and scientific philosophy was belied by their size and price (75 pages and 59 pages; $1 each). The title of the first was Encyclopedia and Unified Science; of the second, Foundations of the Theory of Signs. The two are forerunners of 18 more to be published by August 1939. The first 20 pamphlets, comprising two "volumes," are to be the starting point for other volumes. Editor-in-chief of the project is Otto Neurath...
...week, the Institute sprang Lesson No. 1 on 60 students, mostly admen of the questing, high-pressure type with whom Dale Carnegie's courses were popular. Dr. Reilly called the First Annual Straight Thinking Breakfast a "mental showerbath." As the pupils nodded over grapefruit, cereal, ham & eggs, coffee (price: $10), he revealed his formula: "1) Separate facts from opinions and look at the facts from the standpoint of who, what, when and where. 2) Arrive at an intelligent definition of the real problem and do not jump from an opinion to a conclusion without reasoning. 3) Consider carefully...
...into a huddle, sent a word of warning to harried Director Heinrich Conried. The grounds for this protest were moral. Its cause was a new opera which had just been given its Metropolitan premiere. In the opera a necrophilic heroine disrobed before her gloating, drunken stepfather, demanding as the price of her strip tease the head of an imprisoned prophet. To the severed head, duly served up on a platter, she made more or less violent love. The plot was Oscar Wilde's, but the opera's composer had italicized its gruesomeness with uncanny naturalism. For sheer horror...
...Washington, Secretary Wallace had just fixed wheat loans for the 1938 crop and the acreage allotment for next year (55,000,000 acres, compared with about 80,000,000 actually seeded this year). Figured on the basis of 52% of the present farm parity price of wheat ($1.14 a bu.), the loans will average about 60? a bu. at the farm. The 1938 crop estimated at 967,000,000 but, will be the second largest on record, and Commodity Credit Corp. has set aside $100,000,000 for the loans. Purpose of the loans is to let farmers keep their...
...price of wheat, last week 71?, falls below the 60? fixed figure, the Government must hold the wheat until the price rises. Thus it will be spending $100,000,000 or more to store the surplus, while foreign producers will have the world market to themselves by selling at the prevailing price. To insure the U. S. of a "fair share" of the world wheat business, Secretary Wallace would like the world's farmers to store their surplus wheat this year...