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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...themselves about what they saw. As a matter of fact nothing has been "done for Wales." The Government do not claim to have brought about the pick-up in Welsh coal exports which has reduced the registered unemployed figure to 33,000, increased the employed to 32,-ooo. The price of coal still averages about $4.00 per ton, and the average South Wales employed miner still earns about $2.40 daily...
...sale, Mr. Warren and four of his colleagues voted to buy it for the college. When Dr. Dennett protested that he had no use for the building and needed the money elsewhere, the trustees offered to put up all but $7,000 of the $42,000 purchase price. Dr. Dennett thereupon asked for a "suspensory veto" on financial proposals. When the trustees refused, he resigned...
...bales to 5,324,000 bales at the end of the last cotton year. The estimated carryover this year will be down to 4,400,000. As last week cotton's crucial season was just beginning, these estimates had little effect on cotton's long-time price...
...cost: $400,000. Its biggest job at present is being done for the Library of Congress. First disclosure of the company's financial status occurred last week when Westinghouse bought it from the Sees for 10,000 shares of common stock, worth $1,490,000 at the market price. Assets of the company were estimated at $1,068,000. Sales in 1936 were $1,650,750, compared to $1,262,293 in 1935. After a loss in 1935 of $73,945, the company made $3,348 last year...
Present Calcutta price for jute is 3¾? per lb.; for burlap, 3¾? per yd. Of all burlap imported from India, about 35% goes for automobile accessories, furniture wrapping and backing for linoleum and carpets. Ford Motor Co. used to buy 1,000,000 yds. a month for Model T upholstery. But the principal use for burlap is in sacks. In 1930 U. S. sack manufacturers made 525,000,000 burlap bags, sold them for $45,000,000. Last year production was 438,000,000 bags, sales $35,000,000. It takes about 1⅓ yds. of burlap...