Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Hyam Greenbaum, Musical Director of London's British Broadcasting Corporation's Television Orchestra, was acquitted at Bow Street Police Court on a charge of having stolen two books from Charing Cross bookshops. First steal: "Days of Hope'' (price 6/6); second steal: a book on Leonardo da Vinci (price 8/6). Witnesses supporting Conductor Greenbaum came near constituting a Who's Who of London's musical world...
...Price, Houghton...
Winners of the other running events, all of which were over fractional distances averaging three quarters of the regular stretch, were Price, who took the 330 in 39 seconds flat, and Houghton who built up a big lead to win the three quarter mile...
...officials on the other hand are convinced that the Employment Plan must go on and admit that they must turn to other departments for subsidization of the scheme. For a cooperative and satisfied working staff, the delving into the resources of other Corporation capital is not too high a price...
...first attempted under NRA. When that went under, the job of issuing production quotas was assumed by prorate boards in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, cooperating through an Interstate Oil Compact Commission specially authorized by Congress. This six-State body has no regulatory or price-fixing powers, can act only as a clearinghouse between the various State regulatory boards. That it has been successful is attested both by the present small crude oil inventories and by the Commission's voting three weeks ago to ask Congress to extend it another two years...