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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good roads program in this State to pave the highways and build a thousand miles graveled farmers' roads every year, and we are building them of the highest type. 5) That we took the Charity Hospitals of the State and reformed them so as to reduce the death rate from 30 to 40%, and increased the capacity. 6) That we went into the Insane Asylum and extracted as many as 1,500 abscessed teeth in one week's time, that had been left in the heads of those poor people as long as 20 years. 7) That...
...reached out, stopped one blade and grasped at the other. First and most destructive of the industry's two menaces has been the price cutting war between manufacturers, begun in April, 1928 when the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. reduced the price of Camels from the long established rate of $6.40 a 1,000 to $6. Quick to follow were Liggett & Myers with Chesterfields and Piedmonts, and the American Tobacco Co. with Lucky Strikes. The Lorillard To bacco Co., faced with the heavy expense of introducing Old Golds met the reduction only partially, cutting its price to $6.10. During...
...pressure, this is an ideal arrangement; but to the little producer who wants to get his oil just as fast as the gas will push it out of the ground in order to pay off his costs and begin to make money, it seems dubious. At any rate, little operators met in Los Angeles last week, formed the Association of Independent Operators, tried to make up their minds whether to stake everything on proving the conservation law unconstitutional or to sign the contracts sent out by the co-operative association, and take their chances on later smoothing out what they...
...demanding payment Jan. 1. Although conditions have often seemed hopeless in the sugar industry, many a grower believes that the lowest point has been reached and that from now on returns will be satisfactory. With the increase in population, sugar consumption has steadily increased at an average annual rate of about 7%. While production soared much swifter than that for a few years, there is no indication that it will increase much above the present figure. For these reasons of increasing demand and a constant supply, the price trend should be upward and only a slightly higher price can bring...
...bearish factor was a speech by Philip Snowden, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, which attributed the rise in the Bank of England's rediscount rate to the U. S. "Orgy of speculation." Bulls asked, "How much have British capitalists contributed to the 'orgy'? Did not the Hatry collapse indicate a similar orgy...