Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buffalo citizens were offering as much as $1.50 for a pound of butter last week. Storekeepers limited purchases of eggs to a half-dozen. Pork was hard to get at any price. Reason: 1,000 A. F. of L. truck drivers and warehousemen struck for the closed shop, affecting every store in the city except Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. At the same time 1,300 C. I. O. packing house workers struck for recognition, a preferential shop, shorter hours, higher wages. Nearby farmers did a rushing roadside business. By week's end the truck & warehouse strike had been...
...cylinder 32 h. p. Taupin monoseater sport plane, built for safe piloting by amateurs and said to be capable of landing at a speed of only 12½ m. p. h. Slightly larger French sport planes, carrying two, yet also geared to private purchasers in the lowest price class are offered at $900 with a ceiling of 18,000 feet, cruising speed...
...prison at Kilby, Ala. was Negro Haywood Patterson, 24, convicted for the fourth time in January 1936 of raping Victoria Price, and sentenced to 75 years. In the jail at Birmingham were Negro Clarence Norris, 24, similarly convicted last fortnight and sentenced to death; Negro Andy Wright, 25, rape-convicted last week and sentenced to 99 years; Negro Charlie Weems, 26, rape-convicted last week and sentenced to 75 years; and Negro Ozie Powell, 22, excused from the rape charge but sentenced to 20 years for knifing a guard last year...
Were it not for the Federal tax on undistributed earnings some of the present need for new working capital would be supplied from earnings. As it is, the plowing back of capital is a high-priced luxury. Biggest seeker of working capital last week was Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. Feeling that it was smart to be thrifty about the undistributed profits tax. President Percy Straus persuaded his directors to authorize an offering of rights to Macy's stockholders in the ratio of one new share for every ten now held, at a price to be announced...
supplied from earnings. As it is, the plowing back of capital is a high-priced luxury. Biggest seeker of working capital last week was Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. Feeling that it was smart to be thrifty about the undistributed profits tax, President Percy Straus persuaded his directors to authorize an offering of rights to Macy's stockholders in the ratio of one new share for every ten now held, at a price to be announced. Declared the Macy directors in a statement which might have been improved by Macy's copy department...