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...year 1914 sounded the historic signal for basic change from the old bankrupt imperialist order to the new world socialist order." The year 1936 threatens the world with a repetition of 1914's imperialist war, but a repetition fundamentally conditioned by the further decay of capitalism and the rise of exploited classes and peoples. These are the principle theses about which R. Palme Dutt builds his striking review of the post...
Prime reason for sterilizing new gold supplies is to put an end to the steady rise in excess bank reserves. Last summer when the figure for excess reserves was around $3,000,000,000, Chairman Eccles boosted reserve requirements 50%, a move which reduced the total to $1,800,000,000. Since then some $500,000,000 worth of gold has flowed into the U. S., a sum which will show up as excess reserves after the year end. Before the winter is over reserve requirements will probably be upped a second time. The sterilization plan was designed to keep...
...last year, a 60% increase. Columbia's program revenues for the same period were $20,788,000, comparing with $15,751,000, a 32% increase. N. B. C. reported an eleven-month figure of $30,935,000 for 1936, comparing with $28,255,000 last year, a 9% rise...
...share, eliminated back dividends amounting to $52.50 a share on 63,004 shares of preferred, erased sinking fund arrears of some $882,000. Meanwhile Certainteed began to nose slowly upward on the building wave, made a profit of $131,000 for the third quarter. To accelerate this rise by putting Montgomery Ward efficiency into Certainteed will be President Baumhogger...
Historical crises usually bring on an avalanche of hasty interpretations, dim eyewitness accounts that last no longer than the event that gave rise to them. Less perishable than most works of its type, John Langdon-Davies' 275-page Behind the Spanish Barricades is a literary hybrid, partly a work of political journalism, intelligent and humane but offering no sensationally new information, partly a warm and colorful discussion of peaceful Spanish ways which the present tragedy makes poignant and distressing...