Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guns, almost no ammunition. The Government says: Why train and arm a Communist Army just to have it turn on us? Generalissimo Chiang has long been a hater of Communists; nor do the Communist leaders, Mao, Chu and Chou Enlai, on all of whose heads he once set a price, trust him. This week, in a peculiarly Chinese maneuver, the Kuomintang's Central Executive Committee summoned Generalissimo Chiang as President of the Executive Yuan (Premier) again, reducing Premier H. H. Kung to vice president. Then it issued a four-point manifesto, the most emphatic point of which...
...fighting subject as the corset was revealed last week by Manhattan's Women's Wear Daily. Surveyed, and well surveyed, were campus fashions at Smith, Wellesley, Vassar, Sarah Lawrence (see above), Duke, Purdue, Chicago. The corset found few defenders. One Smith girl, declaring "Beauty at any price," was for it; and a Vassar girl predicted that "they'll come to it" if the fad lasts. Other trends...
...rescue last week came Northeastern Timber Marketing Association in a deal without precedent. For the sum of $14,400,000, the association agreed to take the entire 600,000,000 feet (95% white pine) off the Government's hands. It agreed to pay an average price of $24 a thousand board feet, to put up a $750,000 bond and $100,000 cash by Dec. i, to pay off in $800,000 quarterly payments over the next four and a half years. Limited to a profit of 20%, the association must split anything above that with the Government, which...
Sparkplug of the deal is a softspoken, balding Detroit lumber wholesaler named Herman I Hymans, who has never before nosed into politics. Originally he wanted to buy only 100,000,000 feet of the hurricane timber, was afraid that if he did the market price would go to pot when the Government began selling. Northeastern Association was the solution. To keep it out of the monopoly class, the Government insisted that it be a cooperative with at least 30 members. Last week, with a Delaware incorporation and Manhattan offices, it began soliciting more members...
Paul T. Lowry '42, Price...