Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headlines, feathery comedies. With recent earnings over a million dollars less than those of the first six months of the last fiscal year, Warners have decided on a return to the brisk action film of the G-Man and public-enemy cycle that pulled them out of their last slump. For such a return, James Cagney, now back on their payroll, seems to be just the ticket. The Warners also plan Hell's Kitchen, with the Dead End boys; Juarez, with Paul Muni; for prized Actress Bette Davis, four stormy stories. Total planned: 52 features...
Reporting sorry figures to its stock-lolders, many a company took occasion to snap at the Government. Tartest comment was provided by Chairman Edward Joel Cornish of National Lead Co. When le blamed the New Deal for a 30% slump in National Lead business, a stockholder piped up to ask: "If you disagree with President Roosevelt, have you anything to offer except to go back to where we were?" Retorted Mr. Cornish: "When I get lost that is what I try to do-go back to where I started from...
Unlike most investment houses, the Wall Street brokerage firm of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.. dealing largely in securities and commodities, last week chose to be optimistic. Reckoning that inventories are now notably depleted and that the slump has been accentuated by the advancing of the Automobile Show from January to November, it noted in a memorandum to customers "that business has actually been doing better during the past two or three months than is generally believed and that there may be some upturn in industrial activity during the ensuing months...
...usual Captain Ulysses Lupien will be on the initial sacks. To date the hard-hitting captain has gone hitless in four games, but nobody is worried over a permanent slump for Lupe who led the nine at bat last season...
...agreement on planting bases expires this year. So the I. R. R. C. again met in London last week, this time to establish not only the export quota for the next three months, but a new planting limit. Recognizing the present slump, I. R. R. C. set the quarterly quota at 60%. Optimistic for the long pull, however, I. R. R. C. upped its bases along a graduated line. The 1934 base was 996,500 tons. Last week the I. R. R. C. proposed bases...