Word: printings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...widespread displacement of workers in the cotton textile industry." By autumn the price of cotton had jumped from 6¢ to 92 ½ç per Ib. and on top of that was a 4.2¢ processing tax. Labor was costing the industry 69% more per hour. The price of cotton print goods followed the trend of costs by doubling from March to September...
...Berlin tireless Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, found time to order the German Post Office to print an issue of propaganda stamps urging return of the Saar to Germany and put them on sale forthwith. To give the League Council pause when it meets next month, Dr. Goebbels announced fantastic plans to cover "25 square miles" with a stupendous mass meeting of Germans and Saar citizens whom he planned to bring in innumerable special trains to Coblenz...
...opportunist as there is in the publishing world, was sure he could make the Major a potential best seller. Not until last week, however, did Mr. Schuster come to terms with Major Angas. Then with typical energy Messrs. Simon & Schuster put out the book in three days. The original print order was 2,500 but the Stock Exchange firm of J. S. Bache & Co. ordered all of them for their customers and employes. In one day the printing was successively jumped to 5,000, then 7,500, then...
...believe what it had discovered, the Institute tucked its findings into the inside pages of an obscure food pamphlet. Hardly had it been published before the Wall Street Journal and Dun & Bradstreet hastened to confirm the Institute's opinions, and huge, conservative Standard Statistics Co. Inc. rumbled into print with facts and figures. Off the slide rules of all four popped the same startling answer: U. S. farmers will actually have more money to spend this year than last...
...major difference between silver purchases and other Government outlays is that the Government has to borrow or collect taxes to pay for other expenditures. ]It pays for the silver without drawing on the Treasury, simply by printing silver certificates. Under the Silver Purchase Act the Treasury must issue silver certificates to pay for the actual cost of silver it acquires, but it may issue silver certificates for the full "monetary value" of all silver purchased. Example: If the Treasury buys 100 oz. of silver at 50¢ an oz. it must issue $50 worth of silver certificates, but since...