Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heated conferences took place in the big, flat-faced brown stucco Spanish Embassy on the Avenue George V in Paris. But Don Manuel, who has been wanting to surrender since the Rebels took Teruel a year ago, flatly refused to leave the safety of Paris. Peace at any price was his line. General Vicente Rojo, Loyalist Chief of Staff who crossed over into France with the fall of Catalonia, also declined to go home. French and British diplomats applied pressure at this opportune time and the upshot was that Loyalist Spain at last agreed to reduce its conditions of surrender...
Most diplomas nowadays are in book form, sometimes with leather covers. Price range: 5? for an elementary school certificate, 25? for a high-school diploma, $1.50 for a college "sheepskin" (often paper), up to $10 for a de luxe doctor's or honorary degree...
...legalistic loophole: the word "original." Last week it appeared that Manhattan customs officials had squeezed certain of the grey-and-chalk Paris street scenes of Maurice Utrillo through the loophole, ruling that they were copies of postcards, therefore commercial rather than original art, therefore dutiable at 15% of the price they fetched in France. Duty was applied specifically on one importation of Manhattan's Perls (pronounced perils) Galleries, Rue Saint-Vincent a Montmartre; and on a score imported by the Valentine Galleries for a show which opened this week. Both galleries paid and appealed...
First proposal to sell out to TVA came from Willkie, early in 1934. All last year, he and TVA dickered sporadically over a fair price for Tennessee Electric Power Co., chief C. & S. subsidiary involved. The amount invested in Tennessee Electric Power's electric division was found by independent audit to be a net of $86,300,000. Mr. Lilienthal, mentioning depreciation, offered $55,000,000, presently raised...
Oldest, commonest indicator of the state of U. S. business is the price of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. But while that curve produced at No. 11 Wall Street is almost always eventually right as to trend, at any given moment it is frequently apt to be wrong as a "state of-business" indicator. For stock prices have always had a high emotional content, are given to excesses of excitement or complacency...