Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress has met, it is possible that I may send supplementary estimates for commencing construction on a number of ships additional to the above program?" ¶In a proclamation carefully guarded until markets closed on New Year's Eve, the President set the U. S. Treasury's price for newly mined domestic silver down from 77|½ an ounce, where it had been since 1935, to 64½ an ounce, where it was first pegged when the New Deal started juggling with the price in December 1933. Net result was to reduce the difference between U. S. Government...
...plots are mightily involved even though the play has been cut to about half its length. One thread of plot entangles Rowland Lacy (Joseph Gotten) who, instead of going to war in France, disguises himself as a journeyman in order to woo his lady. Other plotters are Vincent Price and Edith Barrett, whose contributions to the high cockalorum are good, but occasionally strained. The real heroes are the shoemakers themselves, and the best of these jackanapes in droopy drawers and flapping codpieces is Hiram Sherman. His finegrained playing of low comedy won him a first-night ovation...
...point the motion picture ceased to be mere superficial entertainment and became recognized, in addition, as the new art form. If they concede that it is art, they can easily be deceived into believing that Hollywood producers first regarded it as such when they billed a film at reserved prices. Today that practice is being abused regularly, so that every fifth production is dressed out as great and sold to the public at $2.20 a seat. But in the past, in the dim beginnings of the movie technic (this is a safer term than art), a picture did not have...
With emphasis being laid generally on the Astaire dancing, there is a consequent tendency to neglect the humorous parts of the movie. It is not so funny as a Wodehouse novel, but it's worth the price...
...Cuba tried a single-handed experiment in limitation, but as she cut her production, rival nations expanded theirs. Cuba then sponsored the plan of Manhattan Lawyer Thomas L. Chadbourne whereby all sugar-producing nations adopted export quotas. Put into effect in 1931, the Chadbourne plan failed to raise prices because its quotas were too high in the face of declining world sugar demand. In 1932 the average world price of sugar fell to .9? a lb., well below the cost of production. Since then it has never recovered...