Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Painter Salvador Dali and Actor Harpo Marx. It is natural that two such surrealists should be fast friends. Early last year, while visiting in Hollywood, Dali sketched his friend Marx in pastels. Last week the odd result was hunting a buyer in San Francisco. Agent Julien Levy's price...
...major-league hockey club). Last week when the Red Wings lost their seventh game out of nine this season, it was too much for Owner Norris. Dipping into his gold-lined jeans, he persuaded the league-leading Boston Bruins to sell Goaltender Cecil ("Tiny") Thompson for $15,000 (highest price ever paid for a goalie). No less shocked than hockey fans was Tiny Thompson (so named because he is so big), who had been with the Bruins ten years, had helped them climb to top ranking in their division of the league five times, had won the Georges Vezina Trophy...
...Business stimulant of first importance in the immediate future." Like all spending, the blessings of rearmament are short-lived. It helped England for a year but last week England's plight was reflected in the fact that the pound sterling was under such pressure that the price of gold in London went to the highest level in history ($34.70). There were persistent rumors that further devaluation of the pound was the only recourse-and when Britain left the gold standard in 1931 the U. S. suffered 18 months of deflation...
...proof that newsprint could be made out of Southern slash pine excited Southern publishers: with slash pine growing like weeds in the South, they ought to get their newsprint a lot cheaper than the $42.50 a ton then charged by the Canadian and Northern U. S. manufacturers. (Current price: $48 to $50.) When a Southern lumberman named Ernest Lynn Kurth announced early in 1937 that he would build the South's first newsprint plant at Lufkin, Texas, the publishers were even more excited. But though kraft paper factories were fast becoming the South's biggest industrial baby, Southern...
...farm or in the city that the men can." When her steer, which won about $900 in prize money, was prodded out of the Amphitheatre's doors two days later, it was auctioned off at $3,785-$3.35 for every one of its 1,130 lb., the highest price fetched since 1929. Shortly Mercer will go, as all steers must, to the slaughterhouse...