Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both cane and beet, the Bill provided continuance of the quota system limiting raw sugar imports, as well as cash benefits to be paid from a ½?-per-lb. processing tax, and the President was reconciled to holding an umbrella over the growers in the form of a domestic price about three times the world price. But he strenuously objected in principle to that part of the bill which for the benefit of mainland refiners severely restricted imports of refined sugar from Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Cuba (TIME, Aug. 16). A veto, however, would have brought down on the President...
...School of Public Health; and J. H. Emerson Co. of Cambridge, Mass., owned by John Haven Emerson, inventive son and namesake of New York City's onetime commissioner of health. The two companies long quarreled over patent infringements. Meanwhile, since 1929 only 250 Drinker respirators have been manufactured (price: $1,350 to $2,450), and since 1931 only 30 Emerson respirators (price: $1,000 to $1,600). Neither firm keeps many respirators in stock...
...himself up in the roaring mining town of Tonopah and began to rake in the shekels. Before long he was known as the ''Boy Gambler," ran his own gambling joint in Goldfield in competition with the late Tex Rickard. Meanwhile he was speculating steadily in low-price mining stocks. One was the Mohawk mine, which in 1906 struck gold, reached a value of $7,000,000 in seven months. Wingfield and Nixon joined forces, bought other properties which they incorporated as Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. with a capitalization of $50,000,000. Wingfield's share...
...York Stock Exchange one day was only $3,730,000, smallest since 1918. Volume of August stock trading had totaled only 17,220,000 shares, smallest for that month since 1934. Gloom hung so heavy in Wall Street that a seat on the Exchange sold for $75,000, lowest price since April 1935. On the sole million-share day last week 143 issues found new lows. On a recession not so great as that of last June, Wall Street morale touched a new low for recovery, and brokers began holding a premature wake over fall business prospects...
Colonel Robert T. Barton, Richmond, Virginia Democratic Committee Chairman, wrote Lieut.-Governor James H. Price, Democratic nominee for Governor, begging him, if elected, to appoint to his staff "some trenchermen and tanks." Complained Chairman Barton: "I am reliably informed that the Governor of Kentucky's third team can down in these activities any and all opposition in Virginia. The present staff lacks men who can throw good parties...