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From them, the buying spread right across the board as buyers looked for undervalued stocks. Sears, Roebuck and Loose-Wiles went to new highs for the year. The movie stocks, gilded by the amusement boom, climbed right along with them. Typical example: Loew's, Inc., not cheap at 71, went up ten points in the last ten days. As usual, the market was also full of bargain hunters, shopping among the cheap stocks. As a result, many of the blue chips, notably General Motors and U.S. Steel, lagged, were still below their year's peaks. Furthermore, many...
Liberal, Tory and C.C.F. alike went hammer & tongs after Finance Minister James Lorimer Ilsley, who has insisted that M.P.s must pay full income taxes on their $4,000 salaries, refused them exemption for living expenses in Ottawa. Cried Liberal Arthur Roebuck: "Members . . . grow poor in the service of the public." Said Tory Richard Burpee Hanson: "There is no other class in Canada which is making sacrifice of time and of ability and of capability and of money comparable to the sacrifices made by members of this Canadian House of Commons...
...world's biggest business stocks ten times as many catalogue items as Sears, Roebuck. It has a larger civilian payroll than General Motors. It runs a bigger teletype system than any U.S. press association. The business is the Air Service Command, the department store, garage, and mail-order house of the Army Air Forces...
...part of the stock is listed in the catalogue. Would-be customers can see the rest at the A.A.F. Specialized Depot in Memphis, Tenn. The depot expects to have even a bigger variety of stock as time goes on, may end up with a mailorder business bigger than Sears, Roebuck...
...Phelps heyday at Yale was passing. By then Billy Phelps's literary notions were not even modern in the eyes of the sophisticated '20s. They could not agree with him that the swing of Eddie Guest's verse was "perfect," Walt Whitman "nothing but a Sears-Roebuck catalogue with calliope accompaniment."* Some of them were interested in James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis. Phelps...