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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rubber industry in 1939 is no longer in the age of Cheops. It is quite ready to mass-produce upwards of 65,000,000 tires a year, if and when full production comes back. Its complaint is that while it is set up to serve an expanding economy, the public is now buying at the rate of about 50,000,000 tires a year. In the first half of 1939, the industry sold 9,217,000 tires at little enough profit to the hard-bargaining auto companies, and 17,188,000 tires at a better markup to the public. Last...
Less than a month later Arkansas Public Utilitycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, second largest stockholder in Kansas City Southern (largest: Amsterdam Trust Office, The Netherlands), became its president. Between expanding his inland public-utility empire and working for the New Deal as director of RFC (1932-34), Ozarker Couch had also obtained control of Louisiana & Arkansas. Of that road his younger brother (by 13 years) Charles Peter Couch has been president since Harvey gave...
...hopping mad. For the first half of 1938 Consolidated had turned in a neat net of $4,000,341. But for the first half of 1939, it had a deficit of $872,671. With the report Harry Sinclair made another bitter statement: "I think the industry has served the public extremely well, but it is serving itself very badly...
Livestock producers think they could get higher prices for their best beef if the public knew what it was buying, demanded quality meats. Today the Government grades not more than 9% of U. S. slaughtered beef. Producers want it all graded. Month ago new Government grading standards became effective. Last week the American Institute of Cooperation (booster of farmers' cooperative associations) met in Chicago, heard about the new rules from an expert: Sleeter Bull, Associate Professor of Meats, University of Illinois...
...years later De Forest rewrote it, tried unsuccessfully to persuade Harper to bring it out again. At last, prodded by renewed interest in the Civil War, the changed attitudes toward candor in fiction, the publishers have belatedly acknowledged that De Forest and Howells were right, that their predecessors and public opinion had been wrong...