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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later the official report to Congress by the Democratic National Committee revealed the names of several corporations with expensive bookish tastes -most of them also sellers of the kind of goods of which the Government buys quantities: Bethlehem Steel Co. (20 copies); Automatic Voting Machine Corp. (12); Monolith and Medusa Portland Cement Companies. Hammermill Paper Co. (10 each); California Portland Cement Co., Deere & Co. (8 each); The Carborundum Co., Inland Steel Co., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. (4 each). Other bibliophiles: Walter P. Chrysler (50 copies), Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, International Association of Machinists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bibliophiles | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

From robust Winnipeg (Cree Indian win, murky; nipiy, water) last week came the robust report of an accident to a trolley of Winnipeg Electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Murky Water | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...series of informations between April and September 1935 that finally impressed Pennsylvania's Secretary of Revenue and moved him to start action. Then Governor Earle, responding to shouts by the Pittsburgh Press about a political "Sixteen Million Dollar Grab," urged passage of a law to require corporations to report all such escheatable sums directly to the State and barred fees to informers.* Last week's suit if successful will force Pennsylvania to go through with the Edelman & Creskoff informations on the 25% basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Escheat | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...fortnight. Anxious to merge Steam with its gas & electric properties, Consolidated applied to the Public Service Commission for permission to offer its own preferred stock in exchange for Steam preferred. There seemed no reason why the plan would not be approved. But the Public Service Commission, in a report dated last month but not released until last week, held that Consolidated's offer was far too generous. Among other criticisms the Commission pointed out that until last year Steam allowed only 1% annually for depreciation, an amount "entirely inadequate, with the result that past earnings have been overstated." What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Condensed Steam | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...University library Recommended in report submitted to Board of Overseers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Turn Back The Clock | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

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