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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keith C. Steele '35, chairman of the Lowell House Dance Committee, announced last night that a majority of the tickets for the dance to be held in the dinning hall and common room on Friday have been sold. Tickets will remain on sale until 200 couples and 100 stag tickets are sold. The prices are $4.50 and $2.50. Should any tickets be left the day of the dance they will be sold at the main gate for $5 and $3. Flannels or linen suits are preferable dress with any informal dress acceptable...
...future with more optimism if the present restrictions curtailing and almost preventing the use of long-time credit were removed. The business of the Westinghouse company consists primarily of durable or capital goods which are paid for in normal times by money obtained by our customers from the sale of securities. At the present time little, if any, money is moving into industry from this source due not only to restrictions on loans but also to a psychology which tends to discourage investment in improvements and betterments. It is a strange but significant fact that we are living...
...Brown, Daily Herald announced that the majority of 10,000 students in 33 colleges had signed a petition, to be forwarded to Washington, demanding: 1) immediate U. S. adherence to the covenant of the League of Nations; 2) nationalization and international control of the manufacture and sale of armaments; 3) severance of U. S. commercial relations with belligerent nations...
David E. Lilienthal. president of EHFA, got busy selecting electric ranges, refrigerators (costing less than $80), water heaters (costing less than $65) suitable for rural sale. He invited several advertising agencies to submit designs for a TVA emblem and suggest plans for an advertising campaign. Chosen were Young & Rubicam's emblem (a blue hand holding a red lightning bolt with the inscription "TVA-Electricity for All") and plan of campaign. The campaign: window displays, demonstrations, pamphlets distributed by franked mail...
...raise the duty on rye by an amount equal to the bounty. He ordered some of the rye placed in bond, pending a decision. Fortnight ago he decided that the Polish imports did not constitute dumping as defined by the Tariff Act. The rye was therefore released for sale with no extra duty. Presumably the Secretary was anxious not to disturb the newborn distilling industry or allow a rye shortage to raise the price of rye whiskey, cereals and bread. But domestic rye prices promptly dropped 1⅝?, then another 1¾, as traders hastened to liquidate...